On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Michal H. Tyc wrote:

> If you have exotic (or very modern) hardware and/or drivers,
> you need sometimes fiddle a bit with configuration. But on
> a standard 386 or 486 PC there should be no problems.
> 

There were problems when using programs which required "exotic" things.
For instance math coprocessor emulators (can't remember exactly which
was). Also it behaves a bit ramdomly with some DOS extenders (although it
works, it may crash from time to time) 

> NWCACHE and NWCDEX (disk cache and CD-ROM redirector) both use 
> (although do not require) DPMS on 286 and above.
> It allows to reduce their conventional memory usage -- significant
> parts of these programs are then loaded into extended memory and
> execute in protected mode.
> 

Yep, I have forgotten about these two (these two come also from Novell :))

> Greetings,
> 
> Michal
> 
> 
> 

Best regards

Cristian

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