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Re: loading dos high

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From: mervyn.baldwin
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article <817473846snz@rose.demon.co.uk>
           Ross@rose.demon.co.uk "Ross Cochrane" writes:

>Yes, I'm afraid it's me again after some help.  I've a 286 machine
>running under drdos 6 with 2 megs of extra memory.  Now my problem is
Cut.................
>DEVICE = c:\DRDOS\HIDOS.SYS /bdos=auto
And cut again.......

A couple of years ago I ran a 286 with DRDOS 5.
I think you can only do what you are trying to do if you have a NEAT
 chipset (or similar) Things may have changed in V6 but I doubt if 
 this did - so HIDOS.SYS only works with a limited range of 'Chips
 and Technologies' based computers.

-- 
Best wishes,
Mervyn Baldwin.
vyn@abaldwin.demon.co.uk
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Date: 1995/11/28
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