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From: Matt Lewandowsky <matt DOT l AT techie DOT com>
Subject: Re: EMM386 and DPMI
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Hmm.... So, why this line?

"If your memory manager is EMM386, I recommend to put the NOEMS NOVCPI 
parameters on its command line."

It seems as if you'd advise people to only do that if they note that "mem" 
only reports 32MB of EMS... Oh, yeah... Since Win98 doesn't come with the 
MS-DOS help.com anymore, I can't look up the answer to this question: "Does 
NOEMS imply NOVCPI? Or is it really possible to have VCPI with no EMS?"

- --Matt


At 13.16 09/25/2000, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: "Lance W. Patterson" <lancep AT bcm DOT tmc DOT edu>
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:38:59 -0500
> >
> > Microsoft's "EMM386.EXE" is used primarily for two things.
> >
> > 1.  Freeing up "real mode" memory.
> > 2.  Providing EMS memory(a joke), if needed.
>
>Before you dismiss EMS as ``a joke'', let me remind you that EMS is
>required to have VCPI, which is not a joke at all in the context of
>DJGPP.  See section 3.9 of the DJGPP FAQ list for more details about
>this.

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