On (24 Mar 97) Carey Bloodworth wrote to Stephen Haffly...
Hi Carey,
This is Stephen.  I just got home, and haven't had the opportunity to
set up an independent point yet, so this comes to you in my wife's name.
 CB> I don't have OD7 still installed (as I said before, when my HD crashed
 CB> from something else, I just went ahead and resintalled from my
 CB> backups, which were MS6).
For some things, and on some machines, DR-DOS 6 just seems to work
better.  I have been fighting OD7 for the past two days on this system.
GWE would just not start with OD7 installed.  I cloned the old drive
(upgrading size with one I brought back with me), and it now is back to
100% functionality.  It really is wierd.  Does OD7 have a problem with a
machine with AMI Winbios?  In my case, it certainly seems so.
 CB> The DPMI needs to be done if you use taskmgr for multi-tasking, rather
 CB> than multi-switching.  But even without that, I still had some
 CB> problems.
I agree.
 CB> Let's see.... Buerg's LIST, the VER command, and a few other ones that
 CB> shouldn't have had any problem.  (And of course, Buerg's LIST program
 CB> has its own problems when running DR6 or OD7... It screws up single
 CB> character extensions.)
I haven't used LIST.  VER seems to work fine on the laptop though.
 CB> I might have bene able get it more stable, but...
It seems to be a case of either it works fine, or it doesn't work well.
GWE was a problem.  Other DOS programs were fine (e.g. this point
program and Ripterm).  My other desktop system had a few glitches, but
wound up working fine after a bit of configuration tweaking.  Other than
the CTRL-ALT-DEL, it works perfectly on my Compaq laptop.
Anyway, it's good to be back home after a year away.
TTYL,
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