CompuServe Thread

Ron, I have finally put Novell DOS 7 on the bridgeboard. It solves my problem with the Hardcard 40 nicely. It has DOS Mode Protected Interface (DPMI) in the EMM386 manager. DOS loads high. The task manager loads, but I don't have enough memory to exercise it (perhaps I have an excuse to upgrade the BB from 5 meg to 8 meg?). There is a virus protection program that comes with it. The INSTALL and SETUP programs work nicely. Wordstar 7 came up rather fast compared to DRDOS 6. WordPerfect 6 for DOS works in text and graphics mode. The cache (NWCACHE) is loaded. I left it in the default write-through mode. Stacker has replaced my SuperStor Pro D: drive. Incidently, the Stacker installation will not convert SuperStor Pro drives although it will convert an earlier version. Prior to installation of Novell 7, I spent some time moving files to get enough room and manually removing the SuperStor PRO drive. I also disabled all Janus drives while installing since I had used a few to back up files. (Foolish! I should have used regular diskettes just in case Janus virtual drives did not work!) Installation, once started, went smoothly. I even recovered all the Janus files I wanted (I had to reset the computer on a still linked Janus drive. It worked when I copied it to RAM: and linked to the ram copy.) I have about 500K of conventional memory and can probably tweak it for more. That includes the SuperStor and Stacker device files although I don't have any active SuperStor drives. I think that I can definitely recommend the Novell DOS 7 upgrade! Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless 'Perfessor Fearless' from the Rocket City! via AutoPilot 1.03a