I have been experimenting with creating a dos box or window sufficient to run most of my dos programs, within windows 95. I can, indeed, create a box with almost the same amount of conventional, upper (umbs), and extended memory as I get in `real dos'.
However, I discovered that when I use emm386.exe to provide upper memory (umbs), netscape navigator (4.08) suffers an appreciable decrease in general browser speed. Anyone have some ideas why this might occur, and what might be done about it? In this connection, mem in a dos box shows that a stub of win.com runs in the box, and vmm32.exe takes up a considerable amount of upper umb, memory for the windows virtual devices. This can be reduced by the setting, localloadhigh=1 in system.ini. I do not know what I am seeing here: I realize vmm32 must run somewhere in RAM, but it is not clear why a virtual dos machine must think that it is residing in upper memory blocks (almost 90K or it without the localloadhigh setting). Would not surprise me to learn I must choose between some efficiency in windows processing and umbs in dos, but would like to discover otherwise. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
