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From: marcelo@deadzone.uucp (Marcelo Gallardo)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Miscellaneous Questions: Windows 3, QEMM, DOS 5
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.062628.4182@deadzone.uucp>
Date: 14 Jun 91 06:26:28 GMT
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wwitt@adara.intel.com writes:


>1) What is WINHIRAM.VXD?
>What is this thing? I have not been able to find any reference to this file
>in QEMM'a manual or README file. I looked at a hex dump of WINHIRAM.VXD

	You didn't look hard enough. There is a Windows ReadMe file
	which will explain what this file does.

>2) DOS 5 in HMA
>Of course I ran out yesterday and picked up my copy of DOS 5 which I'm now
>running in HMA. Everything works so far. I'm curious though about how Windows
>handles DOS apps that use the HMA. Does Windows create virtual high memory
>areas for these programs, such that there is no conflict with DOS? I would
>guess that it doesn't and that programs that try to access the HMA are just
>out of luck. Does anybody know?

	You got me.

>3) DOS 5's SmartDrive
>DOS 5 came with a new version of SmartDrive which is at least bigger, if not
>better, than the one that came with Windows. Does anybody know what's new
>and/or different in DOS 5's SmartDrive?

	Use the SmartDrive that came with DOS 5.0. It fixes a few
	problems the previous version had. It still has some problems
	with drives that have more than 1024 cyl, but they're working on
	it.

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