wolfordj@ihlpa.ATT.COM (452is-Wolford) (02/24/89)
I have EMS4.0 on my mother board, but it is not a complete enough implementation for DESQview, I also have EMS4.0 for my ram expansion card but it too is not seen as EMS4.0 by DESQview. QUESTION: What cards are known to work with DESQview as EMS4.0. The people at the tech support line were of no help, I waited on hold for over 2 hours. I only know of the Intel Above Board PLUS, note the "PLUS", but this board is expensive, and I have 4MB of ram chips. QUESTION: Have other people had similar problems with the BBS ? The previous message mentioned the DESQview BBS. I have tried > 10 times and have only gotten through once. Most of the time I get no answer. QUESTION: Is there a place where I could down load DESQview program description files instead of writing all of them from scratch. (NONE of my software is listed in the menues). Jeff Wolford att!iwsag!jww att!ihlpa!wolfordj harvard-+ | ucbvax--+---- att --+ iwsag!jww | decvax--+
troeger@ttidca.TTI.COM (Jeff Troeger) (02/28/89)
In article <11843@ihlpa.ATT.COM> wolfordj@ihlpa.ATT.COM (452is-Wolford) writes: >I have EMS4.0 on my mother board, but it is not a complete enough >implementation for DESQview, I also have EMS4.0 for my ram expansion >card but it too is not seen as EMS4.0 by DESQview. > >QUESTION: What cards are known to work with DESQview as EMS4.0. > > I only know of the Intel Above Board PLUS, note the "PLUS", but I don't have my manual with me at the moment, but the two boards I do know of that DESQview positively supports are the Intel Above Board and the AST RAMpage (includes the RAMpage Plus). Be careful with the RAMpage Plus, (at least the 286 version) as it uses SIMMS instead of the normal DRAMs and your memory (I'm assuming that you are using DRAMs) would not work if you plan to change. > >QUESTION: Is there a place where I could down load DESQview program > description files instead of writing all of them from scratch. I've seen several Forums on Compu$erve that have description files in their libraries. It takes so little time to create a description file tho, that you would be better off building them yourself than trying to find ones that you need.
Mark.Woodruff@f9.n363.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mark Woodruff) (03/03/89)
DESQview only fully supports EEMS boards. AST is the only major manufacturer of EEMS boards, although there are cheap clones of their boards now available. The Intel Above Board Plus is *not* an EEMS board and cannot be used in situations where you use modems higher than 1200 bps or require fast bank-switching times. My recommendation: look through Computer Shopper and find someone selling a cheap clone of an AST board. mark (DV2.10 on an AST Premium/286)
lapid@techunix.BITNET (Ofer Lapid) (03/09/89)
In article <1.240DD998@mamab.FIDONET.ORG> Mark.Woodruff@f9.n363.z1.FIDONET.ORG >DESQview only fully supports EEMS boards. AST is the only major manufacturer >of EEMS boards, although there are cheap clones of their boards now >available. If you buy an AST card for an XT clone you better double check it before you part with you're money. I tried the latest AST card and it doesn't work with some XT clones. It has a soft configuration store on an EEPROM that hates the rest of the cards around. The local AST dealer replaced it 3 times and then stopped selling it altogether. Just to let you know. -- Ofer Lapid 4X6OJ AX.25: 4X6OJ@4X4HF P.O.Box 623 IP: [44.138.40.04] Kiriat Bialik 27000,Israel. Pho: 972-4-721257 E-Mail: Now: lapid@techunix.BITNET Usually: Ofer@taurus.BITNET