>> 386MAX supports the Global EMM Import Specification (GEMMIS), which
>> allows Windows 3.x to start in 386 Enhanced mode, even when the EMM
>> manager is loaded. (The documentation in the 386MAX source code
>> seems to refer to it as the "Global Paging Import Spec".)386MAX
>> supports the same I/O port trapping API through INT 2fh that EMM386
>> provides. This (at least in theory) should make it compatible with
>> certain emulation TSRs such as SoftMPU and VSB, which currently
>> don't support JEMM, and would require separate non-trivial ports
>> to work with JEMM's JLOAD feature.
>
> so there would be indeed some point to have 386MAX running.
> unfortunately  it seems not not work on current real hardware.
>
> not sure if it's worth the trouble to debug this.

Or just take some of the important stuff that Bob Smith and Qualitas discovered 
about Windows/GEMMIS/EMM386 and import it into something like JEMM.  There's 
some knowledge embedded in 386MAX about what MS did that you will never 
directly get out of MS. 


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