hhg1@gte.com (Hallett German) (03/22/91)
This is for a friend. Could someone please send me their autoexec and config to runn QEMM 5.1 with Windows 386 enhanced mode? If this is a FAQ, I apologize. hhg1@gte.com
kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) (03/27/91)
QEMM (v5.1) is really nice in Windows if you have enough device drivers to
limit the amount of conventional memory available for programs. Consider two
of my setups here:
AST Premium II 386SX/20
4MB RAM
110MB hard drive
MS-DOS 4.01
Sony CD-ROM drive, with MapAssist to allow others to access it
SMC Arcnet card running over Novell Netware
With QEMM, I can map most of the TSRs into High RAM areas and save over 60K
of conventional memory (its bad enough that MS-DOS 4.01 takes up a larger
portion of memory already). If I decided to run windows on this machine, I
would be able to load the EGA.SYS driver up high saving me even more
conventional memory for programs.
or on an AST Premium 386/25
8MB RAM
315MB SCSI hard drive
MS-DOS 4.01
MS-Windows 3.0
HP Scanjet Plus with card
SMC Arcnet card running over Novell Netware
This is even worse, I have to load a device driver for the SCSI hard to do
buffering (instead of running SMARTDRV.SYS), another device driver for the
Scanjet, and the novell netware shells. Most of this stuff can be loaded
into High RAM and it helps leave more conventional memory for stuff like
stat programs (SPSS-PC+) or room for WordPerfect to print to a complex
printer like the HP Laserjet IIID.
btw, the line I had to add to get Windows to work in 386 Enh mode with QEMM:
IgnoreInstalledEMM=yes (or something to that effect, check the help files
about parameters in the SYSTEM.INI file)
I also needed to increase the NetHeapSize, told it I wasn't using the
SMARTDRV. There was also a patch to one of the files to get it to work
over novell netware (VPI386 or something like that). Personally, I'd
rather be using standard mode than 386 Enh mode.
Bob
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