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emm386.exe - himem.sys & setver.exe question

Dee67

Dee67

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Trimming down everything I can thing of out of my boot sequence. Deleted autoexec.bat and considering config.sys BUT have a question.

How much do emm386 and himem actually matter with a win98se machine? I know back in 3.1 days they meant and mattered plenty.

How much difference would it be with/without them and are there any benefits to keeping them?

Actually, same question goes for setver

Thanks
 
There's no longer any real need to keep them, unless you go into full DOS mode occasionally to run actual programs other than EDIT or something. Himem is actually still loaded automatically by Windows. Then the Windows memory management does pretty much all that emm386 does.

When I upgraded from 3.11 to Win95, I naturally still had DOS installed on the drive since it doesn't get deleted, and I kept emm386 and himem and tweaked them occasionally (MemMaker still functioned!). Then when I upgraded to 98SE, I kept them still. Then when I had to do a format and reinstall, I didn't install DOS first, so I didn't have them, and I never really noticed a difference.
 
keep himem, but you dont need EMM386 unless you go into DOS mode and run programs that require EMS memory.
 
himem.sys is loaded... you just don't know it when Windows start. You keep it in config.sys if you boot to command prompt only and some sort of DOS application that may need it.
 
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