At 12:18 PM 4/29/2005 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
Isn't it possible to _increase_ available EMS memory through options (or, as with x2max32, make available all memory notwithstanding reported value)?
You could, but a program can misbehave if it tracks available pages against used pages totalled to maximum pages, and get confused if available doesn't go down when allocated goes up. EMSTEST appears to act this way. Probably happens more than once.
The bottom line is that nobody likely needs more than 32M of EMS because every existing application assumes that there isn't more than that to use anyway per final EMS 4.0 spec. Beyond that, XMS and VCPI/DPMI are generally preferred by developers who still use any of them.
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