Subj : Re: MS-DOS Emulation -use
To   : KY MOFFET
From : Mike Powell
Date : Wed Jul 29 2020 16:06:00

> If I had to bet, I'd be looking at the FILES= statement in CONFIG.SYS --
> due to some cranks left over from the MSDOS4.x era, some programs, and
> therefore Win3.1x itself, needed them set to some ridiculously high
> number. I remember this specifically because DRDOS Did Things
> Differently there, and MSOffice 4.0 would not run, and Windows was a
> little goofy in some other way I've forgotten. So I called Microsoft,
> and was told to set FILES and HANDLES to some absurdly high numbers...
> and then suddenly all was well. (And Windows never, ever crashed again,
> nor even misbehaved in any noteworthy way. Seven years without a single
> crash!)

I can remember setting FILES to no lower than 50, and sometimes as high as
70, to get things to work right.  You may be onto something there.

Mike


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