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Article #41570Re: weakness in the LIM EMS 4.0 spec
From: Stephen M. Dunn
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1990 01:10
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1990 01:10
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In article <1570@mipos3.intel.com> mwilcox@pcocd2.UUCP (Mike Wilcox ) writes:
$What it doesn't explain is why paradox 3.0 won't load with ems40.sys
$loaded. I have a 10Mhz 286 with 1 meg on the Motherboard and 2 3Megs add
$in cards as exTENded memory. Can't set them for expanded. Anyway Paradox
$3.0 just freezes the whole system (have to hard reset) if ems40.sys id
$loaded. Doesn't even show the opening screen.
EMS40.SYS seems to be incompatible with some software or combinations
of software. Last summer, I tried using it on a couple of machines on
a network. We were using a special network printing utility (Network
Assistant Plus) which would use 64K of EMS, if you had it, to store its
overlays; otherwise, it would have to load them from the server every
time you wanted them.
Anyway, EMS40.SYS and NAP worked fine together; EMS40.SYS and Symphony
worked fine (though rather slowly) together. However, if we tried
using both at the same time, the machine would hang.
I never found out what the problem was; NAP and Symphony coexisted
beautifully on other machines with proper EMS 3.2 or 4.0, and I
never found anything else that we used that would not run with
EMS40.SYS.
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Stephen M. Dunn cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!maccs!cs4g6ag From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: weakness in the LIM EMS 4.0 spec Message-ID: <25CB80EC.26768@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Date: 4 Feb 90 01:10:03 GMT References: <28980@amdcad.AMD.COM> <25C87DEC.22918@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1570@mipos3.intel.com> Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Lines: 27