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From: gerardis@cs.mcgill.ca (Tony GERARDIS)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: 386 Enhanced Problem.
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.212858.22878@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 22 Mar 91 21:28:58 GMT
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In article <2849@trlluna.trl.oz> craick@titan.trl.oz (John Craick) writes:
>
>>   I've had a similar problem.  The answer for me was :  Windows does not 
>>like QEMM.  If I tried to force windows into 386 mode (using the /3 switch),
>>it would start to load && will then drop out, leaving a message like:
>>  "To run in 386 mode, remove the protected mode software from your
>>environment."
>>     The protected mode software, in this case, was QEMM.  The "solution"
>>was to use the HIMEM and emm386 drivers instead.  I chose not to do that,
>>since it meant losing an extra 70K of low memory, since QEMM was loading
>>half a dozen disk drivers into high memory, something which the windows'
>>(standard-DOS) drivers are too stupid to know how to do.
>>     So, anyway, another thing for you to try is to get rid of QEMM &&
>>see if the error goes away then.
>
>Sorry but this answer is VERY wrong. QEMM versions 5.11 and above is
>definitely compatible with Windows - the best thing since sliced bread &
>I use it all the time, as do many others.
>
>I _think_ the answer is to exclude from QEMMs processing that portion of
>upper memory which is used by the SCSII adapter for data transfer. Sorry
>I can't be more definite - but don't give up on QEMM
>
>John Craick
>(j.craick@trl.oz.au)

Listen QEMM just doesn't behave properly with certain machines, mine
wouldn't crash but it felt so slow that It would be criminal for anyone
to use it! A whole bunch of my friends have had the same problem (all
with different 386 machines) If you don't have one problem with QEMM you
usually have another! My whole solution to this was getting an AMAZING
copy of MSDOS 5.0 RELEASE CANDIDATE #3, The most stable thing I've ever
seen and I also have >600K of mem after loading all my device drivers
and mem resident progs. Now with that much more mem Who the Hell needs
QEMM. At least we know that MSDOS and windows were made by the same
Company and therefore are most prob. best together! I wouldn't go back
to QEMM or any previous DOS version regardless of what anyone says!

Don't worry MSDOS should be released officially within the next 2-3
months. It will be worth every penny Microsoft decides to ask for!

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