gdlee@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Gary D. Lee) (07/26/90)
I am currently typing this article on a zenith 16mhz 386 with 5 mb
of ram running desqview386. I have had no problems running windows or
desqview except those generated by my screen reading software and the
drivers for my speech synthesizer. After carefully reading the manuals,
however, I solved all of these.
As for those of you who want to bash zenith I have this to say.
always, with any manufacturer, be careful of the first couple
of runs of a new machine.
As for running desqview and conflicting with the page frame for
ems, you really won't get that much out of desqview without running
a memory manager such as qemm386 or 386-max anyway. This elim-
inates the page frame problem. and on the 386/16 just change
the switch 1-2 on the memory card to only extended and use your
memory manager instead of the hardware ems circuitry on the
board. This is what the 386 memory managment is for.
please email if you have further questions about our use of
zenith pcs. they have been good little machines and I wouldn't
trade 1 zenith for 100 ps/2s.
Gary Lee
Senior Microcomputer analyst
Ball State University
work phone 317-285-1853
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