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In article <Pine.CVX.3.91.950424...@gibbs.oit.unc.edu> jma...@gibbs.oit.unc.edu writes:

 > > Rude?  WTF, you asked a really, really dumb question on the usenet, and you 
 > > got flamed for it.  Who honestly gives a damn whether the "files=" can be 
 > > specified for each DOS session, and if so what relevence does it have to the  > > gaming groups?  NONE.  Dumb, dumb dumb dumb.  Then, you insist on continuing  > 
 > I disagree -- it is directly related to all these gaming groups, since so 
 > many games demand such a wide variety of configurations.  I wanted to 
 > know if Win95 performed as well as OS/2 in handling such a scenario.  The 
 > quality of the answer, IMHO, has direct bearing on the quality of both of 
 > these operating systems as gaming platforms.

 According to one Q&A in Microsoft System Journal, Windows 3.x does not
 have a number of file limit as specified in the CONFIG.SYS file. The
 "files=" clause only applies to applications running in DOS environment.
 In Windows environment, the kernel will dynamically increase number of
 file handles up to a certain limit, which I believe to be approximately
 255. In short, The "files=" has no apparent effect in Windows 3.x
 environment at all.

 I suspect the same hold true to Win95. Upon installing Win95, the
 installation process will automatically strip off unnecessary drivers
 in Win95. For example, mouse, smartdrv and CD-ROM drivers have been
 removed from CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT file. When I read about this
 "files=" debate, I inspected my original CONFIG.SYS (now CONFIG.DOS)
 and Win95's CONFIG.SYS closely, and discovered that Win95 has stripped
 off the "files=" statement from CONFIG.SYS as well. I guess Win95 does
 not pre-allocate file buffers for the its operating system environment.
 So far I have been managed to play lots of games without any problem
 at all.

 I hope this will clear things up. It is not necessary to specify
 "files=" in each DOS sessions in Win95 environment. As for specify
 different set of real-mode device drivers for each DOS sessions, I
 have not encountered any need for this yet.
 
 > Obviously you are having trouble extrapolating from my FILES= example to 
 > other -- more important -- configuration settings, such as the ability to 
 > manipulate system memory, selectively load device drivers, etc.  Not all 
 > of us are as challenged in our critical thinking abilities.

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