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Article #42579Re: Fun with 386SX BUGS
From: Bob Palowoda
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1990 08:38
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1990 08:38
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From article <29194@amdcad.AMD.COM>, by phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai):
> In article <995@fiver.UUCP> palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) writes:
> | When starting up MS windows "win386" program the init sequence crashes.
> |When it does crash you can see some ascii text on the screen along with
> |binary trash that says "Microsoft EMSXXX.0 " and then it drops to dos.
>
> Funny, I just saw an ad bragging about how compatible their
> (not dataexpert) 386 was and how good it ran win386. I dismissed
> it as baloney. Perhaps there really is something to it.
Remember this is a 386SX. I have ran win386 on a real 386 machine
(Everex Step) and it works fine. The speed was disappointing but
it ran and didn't crash. Reminds me of the old Osborne machine and
bankswitching memory. What a nightmare.
> Do you have any of your 2 meg as EMS? You shouldn't, I think.
No, it's configured as extended. I tried it both ways. Another strange
thing that bothers me is if you turn the bit to enable 'external ems control'
the system hangs on a cold boot. But I don't use this anyway.
---Bob
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!indetech!fiver!palowoda From: palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Fun with 386SX BUGS Message-ID: <998@fiver.UUCP> Date: 17 Feb 90 08:38:41 GMT References: <29194@amdcad.AMD.COM> Organization: Fiver Communications Fremont, Ca Lines: 29