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Vibrant Drivers

    13-May-94 09:53:34
Sb: #101396-Vibrant Drivers
Fm: Noah Kennedy 70233,3103
To: Kenny Dubuisson 73762,3306
Kenny- We used to use QEMM to resolve conflicts between… I can't remember. BUt for awhile the thing to do was to use QEMM for some applications and not use it for others. We were re-booting all the time. Since 3DS supports XMS so well now we don't use it, except for manifest which is nifty for resolving memory conflicts. Since you haven't had a chance to tweak QEMM yet, I would go through Manifest (MFT.EXE) because it can give you some great tips on configuring QEMM. Re: 3DS on NT- I've heard nothing, which is surprising because Autodesk rarely makes future plans without consulting me first.<g> I thought it was a natural for them to port 3DS to NT as a native application, so as to take advantage of PowerPC, DEC Alpha, MIPS, platforms that run NT and to get away from this monstrous Phar Lap kludge. 3DS is selling so well, however, and NT must be such a challenge to port code to, that I would think Autodesk sees no need to be the one of the first applications to MAKE people go buy NT, which is what they would be doing. For every high-ender who would upgrade to an NT version, there must be several entry-level types who would buy the DOS version for the first time, and their money is the same. –Noah