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About Executor/DOS 1.99h, the demo version:

  It seems like it is a mixed blessing over Executor/DOS 1.99f.   My problem,
is getting Executor up and running.  Once it does, things are overall much
better than the previous version.

My system is a 486-DX2 with *4* Meg of RAM, and Executor is launched with
*no* parameter, and under plain DOS (except for the mouse driver, -no-
resident program loaded)

On the plus side:
    -Memory manager seems "fix", and memory paging seems to work.  COmpared
     to E/DOS 1.99f, crashes occur frequently (even with -noclock) when I
     see the hard disk's LED lit while running a big program.  With E/DOS
     1.99h, no crash, related to memory paging, has been experienced so far.

    -Executor now defaults to a screen resolution of 640x400 instead of 
     640x480 in E/DOS 1.99f, which helps to make small letters look a bit 
     bigger (and less hard to read)   Thanks a bunch!   :-)

    -Once Executor ends, the system clock no longer run 4X faster.

On the down side:
    - The MAJOR problem, is getting Executor up... and running.  As I said,
      Executor was started with no parameter on the command line.
      The symptoms look random, here are those experienced, so far:
        - Executor would start, and I can move the mouse, however, Executor
          is freezed: will not respond to clicks from the mouse, and seem to
          to ignore the keyboard, except ctrl-break, which dump me back do 
          DOS, thankfully.

        - On start up, the screen blanks, and a LOUD annoying beep that seems
          to never end is emitted. The only way out seems to be a hard reset.

        - On start up, sometimes a segmentation or protection faults
          comes immediately, and I'm back to DOS.

For some reasons, After a second or third try, Executor will start normally.
It seems I can not get it up and running on the *first* try. As I said, once
Executor is up and running, applications seem to run OK.

Hope this helps!

-Jacques
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