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Re: Windows 95



On Tue, 25 Apr 1995 20:00:38 -0400 you wrote:

>I am running the Final Beta of Windows 95 on a 486dx/2-50 with 12 megs of ram

Final beta, my arse...

>and cannot get E/D 1.99L to find the SCSI CD-ROM drive. Under DOS 6.2 and
>MSCDEX.EXE there wasn't a problem at all. I have tried running E/D from a DOS
>window as well as running Win95 in DOS mode. Has anyone found a similar
>problem? I have an NEC-25 cd-rom drive and a MediaVision ProAudio Spectrum 16
>card.

The CD-ROM bit might have something to do with ASPI being needed (?).
I don't have a SCSI setup, but i do remeber something about ASPI in
the faq or readme...
If this is the case, see if Win95 virtual CD-ROM driver supports ASPI
or if its just SCAM.

>Second, I cannot set the applzone higher than 2048 while running E/D in a DOS
>window. I get the message that I have run out of memory and to set applzone
>to a lower number. I can only set it higher when I run Win95 in DOS mode. Any
>suggestions?

Don't know, but i'll try it sometime soon.

>Third, I cannot install Word 5.1 under E/D at all. I keep getting GPF errors
>and crash back to DOS. Any suggestions?

This under Win95 or real DOS?

>Lastly, whenever E/D crashes with a GPF in a DOS window, I cannot restart
>Executor at all, either from the DOS prompt or when I close the window and
>try restarting Executor. I thought I would just pass this on. I have no idea
>if there is a bug in Win95 or E/D 1.99L.

Can you restart it later (after reboot) or do you have to reinstall?
If you need to reinstall, then its prob'ly getting corrupted as it
crashes. Maybe Win95's caching system at fault? Can it be turned off
like smartdrv ?

What beta are you running? (type ver at the DOS prompt or look in help
menu 4.00.xxx) The highest i've seen is 445 which is sitting on an old
PackyBell for testing. Its damned slow but usable. I'll try executor
on it soon. My guess its a combimation of two beta/alpha products.

Later.


Baskin
UT Austin
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