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From: jin@spdcc.COM (Jerry Natowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Is DOS 5.0 really so slooow!
Keywords: Landmark
Message-ID: <8043@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 23 Jun 91 13:45:22 GMT
References: <1991Jun20.223605.18977@IRO.UMontreal.CA> <1991Jun23.034521.7819@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <1991Jun23.034521.7819@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> gwni@troi.cc.rochester.edu (G. Wayne Nichols) writes:
>My experience indicates that any use of HIMEM.SYS will dramatically
>slow down the Landmark rating, if not your actual system.

I have played around with various configurations and found that EMM386 seems
to be the culprit - my apps are runjning in protected mode when I use it for
upper memeory access.  I don't even have to do any devicehighs or loadhighs,
just having emm386 noems is enough.  Maybe I'll try removing himem for laughs.
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