DC>> I don't need to LH Switcher to make it all work.  It uses
 DC>> XMS like DOS should have done years ago.

 ml>> once you get into the 32 bit world, all the old rules and
 ml>> terms get thrown out the door...

 DC> You know I'll only do that completely if all my DOS apps move
 DC> to that format!

hehe, yeah yeah... what i meant is that there's no such thing as EMS or XMS
in the 32bit world... if there is, it is emulated...

should i also mention that the DOS apps are moving to the 32bit world? not
only are they moving to that world, but they are also picking up additional
baggage and bloat along the way... part of that baggage and bloat is a GUI
interface and a requirement that they run on windows or some flavor of *nix
;)

 ml>> took many hours to pull the several hundred megs of data
 ml>> off that drive onto a w98se box at the other end of the
 ml>> 115200bps serial cable but it worked and my client was
 ml>> happy to get their data... so happy

 DC> But, you did that because you know and used DOS.   :)

right... and also because i had/have no NT, 2K or XP cds to boot from to
try to effect recovery via that method... neither did/does the client that
owns the machine... the worst part of that situation is that it is/was all
caused by a fan going bad, the machine being a laptop and the owner not
realizing that the growling they were hearing was the fan heading south...
that lead to overheating and lost data as the cpu and drive controller got
wonky eventually resulting in the loss of the installed applications hive
and none in the backups to recover from, either...

i still have the machine in my possession but it is now loaded with win98se
and requires sitting on the AC floor vent to operate so that the air
blowing out of the vent can cool it... until the fan/heatsink unit can be
purchased, that's where it'll stay running a few distributed applications
like distributed.net's client doing RC5-72 and OGR-25 and stanford
university's folding{at}home protein folding stuff ;)

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