Hi, On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Michael Brutman <[email protected]> wrote: > > EMS can work on 8088 class machines, given the right add-on memory card. > DPMI will never work on that kind of machine.
I thought that was obvious. Did I not imply that heavily enough? Did anybody here not actually know that already? Mike, do any of your machines have hardware EMS? I understand that you have to target what is available for your machine (sparky? 286?) and not what is popular. But I'm just saying that supporting EMS is not common, even for 8086 sympathizers. FreeDOS doesn't even have any EMS drivers at all for 8086, so you must use EMM386, which of course half defeats the point. Even 286+ DPMI is rare these days. There's tons more 386+ DPMI support than anything else. It's just not reasonable to think that everything can (or should) support 8086. I would like to, but it's just not feasible (for us). The only guy I've heard of in recent years using hardware EMS is Jim Leonard, but he doesn't frequent FreeDOS circles. In other words there hasn't been a lot of developer (or even user) interest in EMS here in recent years. So it's moot. Empty talk but no fruitful labor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
