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- From: ekl@fics.uucp
- Subject: Re: Why DOS 5.0 for Windows 3.1 ???
- Organization: Kvam data as
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 00:38:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.003804.16104@fics.uucp>
- Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- References: <1992Aug14.175049.1691@rei.com> <sauron.713912919@femto.engr.mun.ca> <1992Aug15.220853.13034@udel.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug15.220853.13034@udel.edu> duzan@braindamaged.cis.udel.edu (Gary D. Duzan) writes:
- >In article <sauron.713912919@femto.engr.mun.ca> sauron@nano.engr.mun.ca (Patrick Ryan) writes:
- >=>fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
- >=>
- >=>If your use something like QEMM with it as well, the savings go a bit
- >=>higher. I can get 610464 bytes of memory free, and that's with
- >=>soundcard drivers, mouse driver, ANSI... I'm impressed.
- >=>
- > Just make sure that you don't load SMARTDRV.EXE high. When I first
- >set up 3.1 it was crashing quite regularly, which rather annoyed me since
- >it was supposed to be more stable than 3.0. I traced the problem to
- >SMARTDRV and 3.1 has behaved itself pretty well since then. (I'm still
- >looking forward to poking around with OS/2 2.0, but that is another
- >story. :-)
-
- Talking about memory -- I have 6108512 bytes free in my dos session,
- together with MB after MB of extended and expanded memory. I am logged
- on to a LanServer network, have TCP/IP drivers loaded, use my PC as
- an X-server, function as an NFS client. If I want to, I can export my
- disks as NFS file systems. I also have Multimedia support, and
- currently listen to John Farnham (Pressure down).
-
- The system is very stable, and hardly ever crashes.
- The drawback is, of course, that I only have Windows 3.0 support. I run,
- of course, oh ess two. I guess I should redirect followups...
-
- Eirik
-