On 1 Feb 00 at 19:32, Bernie wrote:
> I tested it today at my university and it did work :)
Thanks for the input...I mean output :)
> Now, where can I get a free version that can handle this much RAM?
> It is a bit illegal to use himem.sys from MS-DOS 7.x on a computer
> that doesn't have a license for it - although it is IMO a bug-fix.
Yes, bug fix. You can consider it a penalty for MS, since B.Gates
himself insisted 640K would be more than sufficient ;)
> >Where I am aiming at with my question is: Will or can it
> >for any practical or theoretical reason be any risk involved in
> >"solving" the memory problem by use of himem.sys from MS-DOS 7.x
> >with any of the other/older DOS versions? With risk I mean
> >possible crash and/or general data loss. But also of interest,
> >if any penalty on performance - or if the opposite??
> I do not think there whould be any such problems. I didn't test it
> much at school (Pentium Pro 200 machine) but it seemed to work fine.
> Of course I'll be using it more in the future since it's the fastest
> way to get connected to the InterNet (via Arachne).
OK thanks, I'll assume you let us know if anything bad happens. I'll
take future silence on the subject to indicate it haven't caused you
any problems.
> >Are there any differences in this respect between the himem.sys
> >that ships with Win95A, and that of Win95B (OSR2) ( I would not think
> >so, would not think that himem.sys is involved in anyway when it
> >comes to reading the VFAT??).
>
> Weren't there any more diffrences? IIRC OSR2 is a little more
> stable. (And 2.5 much less stable - I haven't tried the other
> Windows 95 versions).
I wouldn't think improved stability in OSR2 would have as much
to do with changes made in himems.sys, if any, as the GUI stuff.
But who knows.
> I'm wondering what use 64MB of Disk Cache (as soon as I find a
> program that has a higher limit then 32MB) would do when the FAT16
> drive is only ca 150MB ;)
Yes, why use disk cache if you can copy all the stuff you need to a
RAM drive and still have more than enough free RAM to play with?
Would only make sense if the cache used (much) faster RAM, which in
this case it doesn't.
All the best,
Bjorn
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