Hello Linda,

To load your memory further ;-)) and I hadn't thought of this before:

06 Nov 99 12:31, Linda Proulx wrote to Peter Knapper:

LP> I guess what I want to do is maximise the 32 Mb of memory I have.

OS/2 is perfect for this. :) You can have multiple VDM's and/or multiple VMB's 
running at the same time under OS/2 (both VDM's and VMB's are DOS sessions).

VDM = Virtual DOS Machine : this is OS/2's own DOS support
VMB = Virtual Machine Boot: to run any plain DOS version under OS/2 (for
example PC-DOS, MS-DOS, DR-DOS/Novell DOS/Caldera DOS)

Both VDM's and VMB's can be windowed or full-screen.

LP> I use to run DV & I would load some program specific drivers for that
LP> session if they weren't needed in the general boot up.  That way I
LP> could run more DV windows.  I guess that's what I'm trying to do here.

Under OS/2, each DOS session has its own memory and each DOS session is not
taking away memory from other DOS sessions. Each DOS session can have its own
set of DOS drivers loaded (DOS_DEVICE in the DOS settings, such drivers are
only loaded when that DOS session is running). No loaded driver does take
memory away from other DOS sessions.

LP> In order to have more virtual sessions available to me generally I
LP> don't want to take away anything from the original OS startup that may
LP> lose me 1 or 2 available sessions later that a specific need driver
LP> would take away from my total available memory.

The last sentence makes no sense to me. :) The only answer is that this
doesn't happen under OS/2.

OS/2 doesn't have these silly limitations. :) You need to do away with that
DOS-thinking. :-)

If plain DOS is like transport by hand without basket, without equipment and
without vehicles, OS/2 is a full-sized truck with air-conditioning and a very
comfortable drivers seat, and with all the equipment to automatically load and 
unload that truck. :-)) In other words: DOS is very limited and DOS can't get
far and DOS can do just one thing at a time (with TSR's DOS can do 1 and 1/10
thing at a time), while with OS/2 all you ever want to do is possible (and
automated and at the same time if you desire).

BTW, that rings a bell:

if operating systems were like transport systems,

DOS would be transport by hand without basket, without equipment and without
vehicles

Desqview would be a cart pulled by you walking forwards

win3.x would be a cart pulled by you walking backwards

win32 would be a tram pulled by a horse with the horse walking backwards

win9x would be a wagon pulled by a horse with the horse walking backwards

win nt would be a truck pulled by a horse with the horse walking backwards

OS/2 would be a full-sized truck with air-conditioning and a very comfortable
drivers seat, and with all
the equipment to automatically load and unload that truck

  Greetings   -=Eddy=-        email: eddy.thilleman@net.hcc.nl

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