bchen@yoyodyne.WPI.EDU (Bi Chen) (06/18/91)
I bought and installed DOS5.0 on passed weekends. Dos5.0 is certainly a great product compared to it's preceder 4.01. The Window seems to run a little bit faster and smoother. I used to run the DOS4.01 and the QEMM386 and the Windows together without any problem in terms of a few TSR I used with that configration. But one of my most important TSR, the keydictionary, is unable to run under it's swaped mode. No matter whether the HIMEM and dos=high is used or not. It will hold the system after the first hot key pressed. (I don't not load the TSR into UMB) If I load it in ordinary mode, it works fine but that beast takes 100K in conventional memory which is totally unacceptable to anyone. Besides if I uninstall it from memory, itself uninstalled eventhough it does not release the memory to the system and I could not load it again. Loadfix does not help too. One may always blame that the TSR may use some undocument dos features which may not be supported by DOS5.0 any more. At mean time I try to contact the vender I bought the TSR from to see it has any upgrade for DOS5.0, that also leaves me wondering how many upgrades do I have to purchased to let DOS5.0 works with old stuffs while they worked gracefully with the illy fated DOS4.01 (Though the Share vilation seems to be solely problem to me when I use my only wordprocessor - Latex under the window as a task switch.)