At 11:27 PM 8/24/2006 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: > >>Both executables now run and produce a help screen when run as EXE; > >>they used to crash right away, so this is already an improvement. >MD> That's good enough for me. I'll stick a "Requires 80386" message in the >MD> help screen feedback. > > What about case, when drivers used in common config.sys, which used in >any environment? Then this message in help screen useless in this case.
Assuming there isn't a sub-80386 install configuration, then the nine people on the entire planet who are both affected by it and who do not know enough not to use EMM386 on less than 386+ machine will have to look at the help screen, or ask. For the n'th iteration: by direct instruction from administrators and by my agreement, I cannot and will not make noncritical code changes to HIMEM and EMM386. This is about as noncritical a code change as you can get. Personally, I would remove all the terminate on sub-80386 CPU detection code in both if rewriting from scratch, but that's just me. It is an unnecessarily fancy flourish in this day and age; a far different climate than 20, 10, or even five years ago. People who still have such obsolete hardware typically understand how it does and doesn't work. However, after the end of the month, we (meaning you and the appropriate FreeDOS person/people, not me personally) can immediately apply your build DIF file and make a new testing revision. You can update it with your top ten changes and optimizations which do not have unknown or possible application-conflicting operational side-effects. I assume you can, anyway, there shouldn't be any reason to continue a freeze on useful changes. Seven days of patience is all that is required. And besides 2.x revisions, the sky is the limit for features and design changes in the EMM386 3.x design space -- or its equivalent -- next generation memory manager(s). >PS: Michael, do you seen my letters, where I analyze, what wrong with 386 >detection algorithm in HIMEM? I saw a message saying something on that topic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
