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Re: MS-DOS 5.0 and AutoCad v11 Slowdown - Why?

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From: Scott Sanbeg
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 07:50
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In article <27601@oasys.dt.navy.mil> plumpe@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Plumpe) writes:
>Scott:
>    I don't have the definitive answer, by any means, but I've heard
>that ACAD11 wants total control over memory and has a real tough time
>if there's any conflict.  I have 2 486/33 systems from different mfgrs.
>...
>    If you find a solution, or get good EMAIL responses, please share
>them with me.

All of the emails I've received on this suggest the same as you - mainly,
HIMEM.SYS doesn't work with the DOS Extenders provided with acad. I've
removed the line on the machine I referred to originally, and once
again, performance is good. (That is, I removed the HIMEM.SYS line.)
Thanks for your input,
Scott

 
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From: ssanbeg@visual.spk.wa.us (Scott Sanbeg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 5.0 and AutoCad v11 Slowdown - Why?
Message-ID: <1992Nov18.075046.18502@visual.spk.wa.us>
Date: 18 Nov 92 07:50:46 GMT
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