Hi!
14-Мар-2005 00:43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamarэa Merino) wrote to
[email protected]:
>>> in a single unified XMS driver.
>> significant rewrite to regress the instruction set on all XMS 2.0 and
>> admin code down from 32-bit registers to 16-bit. Nowadays I would
>> For the microscopic percentage of 80286-level clients, just use
>> FDXMS286. Simple readily available solution. Fix it if it's broken,
>> no big deal. Why mug HIMEM when it's so unnecessary?
ASM> I must say that I agree with you, at least in practical purposes.
"Me too". Me not hard to replace "himem" word in config.sys by
"fdxms286" on older machines. What we worries, is an universal boot
diskettes, which may be used on many machines, and there is unpractical to
pre-edit them before booting on next machine.
As temporary/partial solution, may be used warning in himem about
"non-386" CPU and immediate exiting.
But unified driver is more user-friend solution, and there are ways how
to make multi-target driver. For example, himem may include some specific
modules, which will be active each on own target (thus, other modules will
not depend on given module CPU-specific optimization). The more so, to save
memory, transient stub may relocate selected module and free memory from
other modules, and thus all what you lost, is an space on disk for (bigger)
himem executable image.
I NOT say that FD-HIMEM SHOULD/MUST be at next day immediately include
compatability with more CPUs and/or how it should/may be performed. I just
express my personal opinion.
ASM> (2) I don't think MS-DOS 5.0 is an improvement over 3.3, even if you
It is: HMA and UMB, config menus, new/documented APIs (and bugs) and
utilities.
ASM> (4) The necessity to comply with RBIL was questioned in this list time ago
And?
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