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From: teexnma@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Nino Margetic)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: MSDOS V5
Message-ID: <1991May22.165932.23114@ioe.lon.ac.uk>
Date: 22 May 91 16:59:32 GMT
References: <6439@gara.une.oz.au> <1991May21.013414.25378@agora.rain.com>
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nino@mph.sm.ucl.ac.uk

In <1991May21.013414.25378@agora.rain.com> greg@agora.rain.com (Greg Broiles) writes:

>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 ?  

**** Haven't seen any. However, I've been using QEMM's loadhi rather
than LH/LOADHIGH which comes with DOS5. Furthermore, since DOS5 can
load itself high, additional parts of low memory (0c00-0cff) became
available (on my 386SX).

[*** stuff deleted ***]

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

*** A pre-release (not beta!!) version of DOS5 which I've got doesn't
complain about the /X; however, I'm not sure where the buffers
actually are.

>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..)

*** Unfortunately true. Therefore, now I have less mem in a BigDos
window than I had with DOS4.01. W/o DV I get 635K with MOUSE,KEYB and
NANSI loaded (+ Anarkey in exp.mem - yes, I do know of DOSKEYB, but I
got hooked on Anarkey :-), with DV I get 560K in a BD window. The only
annoying thing I've noticed is that if I try to load SMARTDRV, then
KEYB refuses to load (remedy: unload NANSI).

>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.

*** Hope that comes true.

--Nino

P.S. Haven't seen any answers on that thread about DEVICE.COM...

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