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(Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tmPtT-0007q1C; Tue, 13 Feb 96 11:56 MST Received: from hopi.gate.net (salernof@hopi.gate.net [199.227.0.13]) by osceola.gate.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA25128; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 13:51:24 -0500 Received: (from salernof@localhost) by hopi.gate.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA31140; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 13:46:07 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 13:46:04 -0500 (EST) From: Fred Salerno <salernof@gate.net> To: Calvin Smith <hawk@inf.net> cc: executor@ardi.com Subject: Re: Don't run UNIVBE!!! In-Reply-To: <199602131538.JAA03719@source.inf.net> Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.960213134531.60454C-100000@hopi.gate.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@ardi.com Precedence: bulk Novell dos 7 isnt the most stable dos, either. I bought it, used it for a few days, and found myself returning it because of DPMI conflict problems with other apps. On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Calvin Smith wrote: > At 12:22 AM 2/13/96 -0800, you wrote: > >I just picked up this gem (UniVBE 5.1) from the Executor_DOS directory on > >FTP.ARDI.COM. I would fervently urge all of you using E/D to use it. > > > >Why? Quite simply, it RADICALLY increased my graphics performance -- AT > >LEAST 2x. > > > > I had a copy of UniVBE 5.1 and I was running it just fine on my novell dos 7 > machine. Then I started to get messages about the 30 days are expiring but > since I didn't have any money I was going to run in for the 30 days's and then > quit using it. But then when the 30 days where up I needed to boot one LAST > time to dissable it (remove from my autoexec.bat) and when it was booting it > got to the UNIVBE and took LONGER to get past this time. When it finaly did > come up my hard drive was trashed!!! > > Amaizinly enough though on my other computer which is running MS-DOS 6.22 > it didn't trash the drive! I think the author of UNIVBE hates novell or > something. > > > Visit my home page at: http://www.inf.net/~hawk > e-mail: hawk@inf.net >