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From: john@DRD.Com (John Horeth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: AMI BIOS with Windows 3.0
Keywords: AMI BIOS, Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.011822.6607@DRD.Com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 01:18:22 GMT
References: <1991Mar2.052414.914@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Mar04.092344.5968@cavebbs.gen.nz>
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I have an 386 based machine with an 1988 version of the AMI bios, and for the 
most part I am not having any problems.  One thing I just came across in 
"Inside DOS" by the The Cobb Group is that even though I am running MS-DOS 3.3
and do not normally use SHARE.EXE (I am not on a network), they advise that
I start using SHARE.EXE when using WINDOWS 3.0.  Something about multiple 
accesses to the same file (SHARE supposedly handles this).  

Guess what, I find no mention of the SHARE.EXE in the WINDOWS manual index.  
"Inside DOS" does  mention that SHARE.EXE cannot be in memory if you are 
installing some new Windows applications, but even MS-DOS 3.3 users will 
benefit from SHARE.EXE.  I wonder if this might be the case in some of the 
AMI problems, since a lot of those people are probaly running under 3.3.

NOTE: The Issue of "Inside DOS" is February 1991. Vol 2 No. 2


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