deisenb@ic.sunysb.edu (David I Eisenberg) (05/27/90)
Many people write that installing Win 3.0 with the Logitech mouse driver doesn't work... I installed it successfully, and it works beautifully without a glitch. Besides telling Windows that I have a Logitech mouse, the only other relevent parts of my installation have been to run Mouse, Menu, and Click in my Autoexec.Bat file. To switch subjects for a moment... I found that running multiple DOS windows was a slight pain at first. I like having TWO DOS windows in 386 Enhanced mode -- one running as "background" priority. This proved to me a failure UNTIL I made a PIF for command.com, and checked the high graphics test modes and such (more info on that in the Users' guide). But, alas, I find that some programs (like Norton's SI, or BE SA <color>) will prevent text from appearing for short moments. Has anyone encounterred this problem? For those of who who asked: WordPerfect runs fine in a window under 386 Enhanced mode (although it's a memory hog). So does dBASE III+... In fact, I've had two DOS windows, WordPerfect, dBASE III+, CrossTalk for WIndows, and some other smaller Windows apps running at once (with CrossTalk and one DOS window running as a "background" process) without much problem other than occational disk swaps (this is with 4 megs of memory). So, other than slight disk-swapping slow downs, and interesting screen updating glitches, I'd say that running multiple non-windows applications at once in 386 Enhanced mode works fine. -Dave -- Dave Eisenberg SUNY at Stony Brook Computer Science deisenb@csserv2.ic.sunysb.edu -or- deisenbe@sbccvm.bitnet
patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree) (05/29/90)
In article <3030@husc6.harvard.edu> sipples@husc8.harvard.edu (Timothy Sipples) writes: >Finally, does it do protected mode with 640K, or does that require more >memory? Here's the story on protected mode operations (just to clear the air on this question). In order to get Windows 3.0 to operate in protected mode you MUST have the himem driver loaded. As most of you know, this can't be done on a 640K machine because it has no hi-dos memory in which to load the himem driver. You basically need at least 1Meg to run in protected mode. -- "Organized fandom is composed of a bunch of nitpickers with a thing for trivial pursuit." -Harlan Ellison Patrick Deupree -> patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us