DOS ain't dead - crazy himem - no need for /max

crazy himem - no need for /max (Announce)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 03.04.2008, 11:09

> It's crazy but one user of MSFN forum found that limiting XMS by /MAX=...
> parameter is NOT really needed. It then use MaxPhysPage and I was able to
> increase it from 40000 up to 488FF and got some megs +. But why it then
> don't work with MS himem.sys? Is it a timebomb gift from Bill or
> monkey-steeve? :-D

Just tried this trick with setting MaxPhysPage=48000 and HimemX. It works. :-)

About the HD access:

> Yes this also works but extremely slow I got about 2,5MB/s. But I didn't tried
> to load UDMA if it could help.

I just run IDECHECK in a Win98 DOS Box. Since the MB's BIOS supports UDMA, there's no significant speed loss with "compatibility" mode, I got 60 MB/sec transfer speed, same as in true DOS.

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Hail to himemX.exe to allow run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - RayeR, 30.03.2008, 16:35 (Announce)
- run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - Rugxulo, 31.03.2008, 00:50
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    - run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - RayeR, 31.03.2008, 03:05
      - run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - Japheth, 31.03.2008, 03:33
        run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - RayeR, 31.03.2008, 12:24
        run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - Japheth, 31.03.2008, 21:30
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        run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - Japheth, 01.04.2008, 13:29
        run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - RayeR, 01.04.2008, 21:19
        crazy himem - no need for /max - RayeR, 02.04.2008, 03:56
        crazy himem - no need for /max - Japheth, 03.04.2008, 11:09
        crazy himem - no need for /max - RayeR, 03.04.2008, 12:10
      - run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - Rugxulo, 02.04.2008, 02:59