Subj : edit in windows 7 64b
To   : Holger Granholm
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Jan 09 2016 08:17:50


08 Jan 16 19:59, you wrote to me:

 ml>> with no troubles and OS/2 handled it great... with DV i had to make
 ml>> sure that the memory was accessible in a certain way or DV simply
 ml>> would not see and use it...

 HG> Yes - but with the help of QEMM 386 the memory problem was solved
 HG> quite nicely, even though you had to juggle the values a bit.

in my case, it required a special memory board... one that could ""back fill"" 
the base memory... if i had 512k base memory, then i could back fill with a 
512k chunk... that let DV have up to 512k sized tasks... with 4Meg on the 
board, that gave me eight 512k sized tasks i could run or sixteen 256k ones...

if there was 640k base memory, the back filled hole could only be 384k in size 
so everything you ran had to run in 384k or less... if there was 384k of base 
memory, then the hole could be back filled with 640k...

not all memory cards would back fill the base 1024k of RAM, either...

 HG> My first version of DV was 2.2 of 1989 and the last one v2.4 of 1991
 HG> and with QEMM-386 v6.0 of the same year.

i dont' remember what mine were... i should still have them laying about around 
here somewhere... i've been thinking about tossing up a virtual machine and 
seeing if it will run DV with QEMM... if that back filling of the memory hole 
thing works, it should be ok :)

)\/(ark

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with the people like you? The trouble makers. How are you going to protect your 
glorious revolution from the next one?" - The twelfth Doctor

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