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- From: wintert@wl.com (Tom Winters)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Excluding areas of memory in NT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.202723.1187@wl.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 20:27:23 GMT
- Article-I.D.: wl.1992Nov9.202723.1187
- Organization: Warner Lambert / Parke-Davis
- Lines: 33
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- I have managed to install the Oct release of the Windows/NT SDK on my Everex
- Step 386/20, with 8 Meg of memory. Things seem to be working overall pretty
- well except for my Network installation. That however is to be expected since
- I am running Lantastic NOS 4.1, on their early AE-2 ethernet boards. I don't
- wish to change my LAN over to LanManager at the momment, but I would like
- to be able to access my other Peers on the network, if nothing else via the
- MSDOS command line interface. The problem is I can't load my NetBios onto the
- card as I would under regular MSDOS. When I attempt to do so the LANBIOS pro
- program indicates that there is no card at the address normal for the card.
- Again thats no problem as this happened also under WINDOWS 3.1 untill I told
- it to exclude - EMMexclude=D000-DFFF under the [386enh] section of the
- system.ini file. As far as I can acertain Windows/NT doesn't allow this sort
- of behavior.
-
- I have taken a look at the REGEDIT program and the registration database is
- quite meaningless to me without any detailed DOCS, Any Idea where they are
- located on the CD?
-
- So far my experences have been pretty good with this release. It seems to
- run much of my software pretty well, including quite a lot of Windows 3.0 and
- Windows 3.1 shareware. I have also found that if I replace the HIMEM.SYS
- driver that comes with Windows/NT with the one shipped with Windows 3.1 (the
- version number is later) I am able to run quite a few very old MSDOS programs
- that wouldn't work with the Windows/NT version of HIMEM.SYS. Unfortunately
- this results in not being able to load WOWEXEC.EXE. So I have switched back
- to the NT version.
-
- I would welcome any comments anyone might have in how to solve the problem I
- am having with the Lantastic Adapter card. I can see that this might also be a
- problem for someone else that might be running Data acquisition hardware that
- might also map some of its memory into the systems address space.
-
- Tom.
-