DOS ain't dead

NOEMS (Users)

posted by Arjay, 02.02.2013, 13:00

> > 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"
Interesting thanks for sharing/rightly correcting me. I believe that is supposed to be the case across various DOS versions, EMS utilties? Since this 1995 discussion EMMXXXX0, EMMQXXX0 and the rest of the gang involving the likes of Ralph Brown agrees with what you state.

As above I've never cared much for EMS and it's not ever really impacted much on things that I have done in the sense that I have just ignored it and have continued to ignore it as something I've not needed or indeed wanted to use. I did write some EMS code years ago but moved onto other things, useful to know for testing.

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