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NOEMS (Users)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 02.02.2013, 12:25

> I am using MS DOS 7.0. The question I have is what difference does the
> NOEMS parameter make when adding it to emm386?

AFAIR the NOEMS does NOT actually "disable" EMS - a program may still allocate and use EMS pages. What it does is:

- rename the "driver" name from "EMMXXXX0" to "EMMQXXX0" ( programs wanting to use EMS are supposed to check the existence of this string at a certain location, but there's a significant amount of programs that won't do this )

- no page frame is allocated.

- the amount of EMS memory that can be allocated is limited ( IIRC, it's 8 MB; use the EMSSTAT utility supplied with Jemm to verify this assumption! ).

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MS-DOS forever!

Complete thread:

• NOEMS - georgpotthast, 02.02.2013, 07:53 (Users)
  • NOEMS - Arjay, 02.02.2013, 11:13
  • NOEMS - Japheth, 02.02.2013, 12:25
    • NOEMS - Arjay, 02.02.2013, 13:00
      • NOEMS - Rugxulo, 02.02.2013, 17:03
      • NOEMS - Arjay, 09.02.2013, 22:23
  • NOEMS - tom, 02.02.2013, 17:27
  • NOEMS - georgpotthast, 03.02.2013, 19:48
    • NOEMS - Rugxulo, 03.02.2013, 23:00
      • NOEMS - Japheth, 04.02.2013, 09:04
    • NOEMS - tlink - Arjay, 10.02.2013, 14:05
      • NOEMS - tlink - georgpotthast, 12.02.2013, 21:50
  • JEMM386 noems - georgpotthast, 12.02.2013, 21:47
    • JEMM386 noems - RayeR, 13.02.2013, 00:23
    • JEMM386 noems - Japheth, 13.02.2013, 04:15
    • JEMM386 noems - Laaca, 13.02.2013, 07:20