DESQView and PC-MOS could have had also benefited from extra memory.
I heard that for PC-MOS (or was it PC-MOS/386 ?), there was an extra CPU module which added another MMU to 286 machines.
Such an upgraded 286 could have used 4MB very well for multi-tasking purposes.
rmay635703 wrote:rasz_pl wrote:was there any software able to utilize all 4MB of ram on 286? other than maybe Win3.1?
Various cad and drawing packages
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Right, now that you mention it, AutoSketch v3 for DOS also added EMS support.. 😁
This allowed for larger drawings. I'll have to check if it works on a 286 with EMM286.
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canthearu wrote:I had some problems with the Yamaha sound card on my 286.
It worked fine in DOS, but the windows 3.1 drives always crashed the system on startup.
I think I'm going to swap it with a Sound Blaster 2.0, whose windows drivers work fine on 286 computers.
Wait, you can also try the default driver for Sound Blaster 1.5 that comes with Windows 3.1.
It's not very powerful, but does okay for "most" games ("most", because some included 16-Bit Wave files by accident).
Edit: Typos fixed.
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