From: prino@onetel.com
"Jason Burgon" wrote in message
news:DaYad.910$hb7.644@newsfe4-gui.ntli.net...
> "Robert AH Prins" wrote in message
> news:2t2io9F1r2oj7U1@uni-berlin.de...
>> To do the final benchmarks of my replacement libs for BP7, I tried
>> to use pure DOS (PC DOS 2000) with just HIMEM.SYS on my AMD64 (with
>> 1Gb of RAM).
>>
>> It rebooted consistently. Then I remembered somesing about using
>> DPMIMEM and tried it with values from as low as 2048 to close to
>> 64Mb. The problem persists...
>>
>> Does anyone have any clues what to do next? (FWIW, with EMM386
>> loaded I don't have any problems...)
>
> Try using the HIMEM.SYS supplied with Win98x .
I don't have W98, but you have my email address. ;)
> I've found it to be the most robust, though I've not tried the ME
> version (which is likely to be idendical).
>
> You should also junk (ok, rename them to Xxxx.701) the RTM.EXE and
> DPMIBI16.OVL files supplied with BP7 and use the one supplied with
> any of my (DPMI) downloads from the "downloads" page of my website
> (see my sig). The ONLY problem I've found with these replacements
> is that DPMIBI16.OVL requires at least XMS services to be provided
> by your environment (eg by HIMEM.SYS).
Great, it now works, without any DPMIMEM switches!
> Don't load EMM386 if you want best performance, or the best
> reliability for that matter.
It's never caused me any problems on my old PC...
FWIW, where did you get those DPMIBI16.OVL & RTM.EXE files? And, not
that _I_ care much, what's their legal status, as it would be useful
to include them in BLP70V20.ZIP (Yes, it's finally coming to Garbo
RSN...)
Robert
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