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- From: swesterback@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi (Sten Westerback, Nokia Telecommunications, FINLAND)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.win3-l
- Subject: re: Re[2]: Speed in Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.181128.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 16:11:28 GMT
- References: <176@reddpgming.win.net>
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- In article <176@reddpgming.win.net>, "Dennis G. Winter [red D]" <dgwdgw@REDDPGMING.WIN.NET> writes:
- >
- >>Furthermore there is basically no need to use qemm as an EMS manager
- >>with windows. Windows has it's own one, so you can free up the EMS
- >>page frame that qemm installs. Unless you might think you need it, but
- >>after quite some years of use & experimenting it turns out that we don't
- >>need it.
- >
- > QEMM provides EMS and XMS from the same memory pool, something that
- > himem and emm386 cannot do. You cannot free up the page frame for
- > EMS memory with either QEMM or EMM386 if you need EMS. If none of
- > your applications needs EMS memory, the NOEMS switch works with
- > both programs, eliminating the 64K page frame, giving you 64K more
- > UMB's. If you use the NOEMS switch with QEMM, you cannot use
- > stealth. Unless you have a very complicated setup, stealth will
- > recover more than the 64K page frame it requires to work.
-
- Well now...
- If you doesn't need EMS for DOS apps and like Windows (who doesn't?) then
- the best way to go is to use EMM386.EXE to provide UMB:s, XMS, no EMS but
- still allow Windows to provide EMS to DOS-apps (using both the RAM and NOEMS
- switches for EMM386). Then you load as much as possible high (beware that
- not all drivers/TSR:s can be loaded high and that trying to load non-TSR:s
- high often fragments the UMB). This way you let Windows provide EMS only if
- needed in the same way as QEMM does.
-
- I have tested QEMM386 (old version, what's the latest one?) but have had
- nothing but problems with it. The largest problem is with BC. Sometimes
- QEMM stops the PC with some message (don't ask what) and then locks the
- computer totally (even if it gives you the option to continue)!
- It may be that the newer versions work better but i'm totally satisfied
- with Microsofts EMM386. You just have to include some unused memoryareas if
- you want more UMB:s (MDA videomem B000-B7FF, ROMBased system BIOS Setup
- (needed only while booting) ...).
-
- Sten
- PS. Happy new year!
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