I had already told Eric that this was useless... Alain
Em 18-10-2011 20:33, Rugxulo escreveu: > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Alain Mouette<ala...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >> = = W A R N I N G = = > > = = ACHTUNG = = > >> Em 18-10-2011 19:20, Rugxulo escreveu: >>> >>> If you're using FreeDOS 1.0 (2006), you may want to upgrade your EMM386 to >>> JEMM. >>> >>> I suggest "JEMM386 X=TEST I=TEST" or similar (see its README.TXT). >> >> JEMM is not a replacement of EMM386. I used it this year and lost many >> user's databases. Jemm is too much optimized an this is hardware >> dependent, it does not work alike on all machines. > > Nothing works the same on all machines, esp. since we all use various > PCs from different OEMs. It could be a BIOS bug, your error, some > other software error, etc. > > Let's not be too hasty to blame JEMM (or Japheth) as most of us use it > without problems. Granted, if it doesn't work for you, don't use it. > But a nice, clear bug report (or even patch) would be ideal. ;-) > >> I reverted to EMM386 and everything is running smoothly again. I am >> responsible for just ove 100 (ONE hundred) DOS machines running 24/7 >> with heavy database usage. > > There were several bugs in that old version that Japheth has fixed. So > really neither is perfect (what is?). > >> I use and it old stable and relyable. > > Except when running spellcheck. ;-) > >> On 2 new machines (last+this month) I had problems with X=TEST, I made >> it work with >> EMM386 NOEMS X=C000-EFFF NODISABLEA20 NOVDS /VERBOSE >> this was apparently due to some periferal in UMB not detected > > Did you use "X=TEST" alone or "X=TEST I=TEST" ?? I think he was going > for more MS-like auto-detection there, which is why it's slightly > different handling now. (And for instance, I think one of the big > issues with "old" EMM386 was heavily incomplete [broken?] VDS.) > > BTW, call me naive, but does that above line even give you any UMB > space?? If not (and NOEMS), why use EMM386 at all?? (Just use XMS.) > :-/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
