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From: greg@agora.rain.com (Greg Broiles)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: MSDOS V5
Message-ID: <1991May21.013414.25378@agora.rain.com>
Date: 21 May 91 01:34:14 GMT
References: <6439@gara.une.oz.au>
Organization: Open Communications Forum
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In article <6439@gara.une.oz.au> gantony@gara.une.oz.au (George Antony) writes:
>Has anybody out there been beta testing DOS 5 with Desqview ?
>
>Are there any clashes in memory management, and how do the respective
>utilities for utilizing high memory compare ?  

My dad is beta testing DOS 5; I haven't wanted to play with it because I'm
currently trying to finish my senior project and want to be sure that the
crashes I see are my own, not Microsoft's. :)  He seems to be happy with
the DOS 5/DV/QEMM combination, with some sticky points:

DOS 5 does away with the /X switch for the BUFFERS statment, forcing you
to use the lower 640K memory area for buffers.

DOS 5 wants to load itself into the first 64K of extended memory (the spot
where Desqview likes to hide), meaning that DV can't hiload itself there.
DOS itself, though, will fit there - so he can get MEM to report 639K free
at the DOS prompt.  (before loading anything, obviously..)

Someone he talked to at Microsoft said many beta people had been complaining
about the loss of the BUFFERS /X switch and that there was a good chance it'd
be back by the time DOS 5 is released.

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>George Antony    (gantony@gara.une.oz.au)
>Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Management
>University of New England, Armidale, N.S.W. 2351, Australia
>Fax: (+61-67) 711531     Phone: (+61-67) 733222 (GMT +10 hrs)
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