At 11:08 PM 7/22/2004 +0200, tom ehlert wrote:
if you didn't make VDS support significant more complete then it was in the good old days of my code, I would disadvise to enable VDS by default (no problem if it's an option)
VDS remains an option disabled by default, as it was originally. One reasons I turned availability back on is because you had said you wrote enough VDS to have it work for something you used and figured you or others might be able to use the heavily crippled bit that is in there. The second reason is that, on a tentative schedule of early fall when HIMEM and EMM386 will have significant portions rewritten to support memory sharing, I figured while I'm in there changing stuff I might also add better VDS support. That is, if someone can provide a simple test where things fail without VDS and introduction of one or more VDS functions is feasible.
> In addition, by popular request
OT: looks like bush will be reelected 'by popular request' that doesn't make his politics better. (and this should end this thread)
Hopefully not, though it's much too close. Anyway, the RAM option change seemed harmless, doesn't hurt MS compatibility and arguably helps it, and makes several people here happier.
just fired up MSD from DOS 6.2 - and looked reasonable at first glance
what failed in what environment ?
HIMEM and EMM386 with a EMM= line, nothing special, DOS=HIGH,UMB. I'll send you the Win 3.1 version MSD in separate e-mail. Let me know if it works for you, might just be my environment. MSD does work here except for the memory display options and TSRs, the stuff that walks around in memory.
My OT observation is that floppies were definitely made much better back when everybody used them. I just uncovered original Windows 3.1 install floppies from ten years ago in my basement and my current machine read all six of them, no problems. Nowadays, the floppies I buy for transfer to the FreeDOS machine start to fail after about ten uses.
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