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Re: Don't run UNIVBE!!!
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
>
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