Hallo Herr Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel, am Sonntag, 10. Januar 2021 um 18:59 schrieben Sie:
> On Sunday, January 10, 2021 10:48 AM, Eric Auer [email protected]: > Hi Mercury & everybody, > I noticed a while back that Japheth updated his HiMemX driver, and > I've finally gotten around to packaging it up for use in FreeDOS. > Also, he's made a new driver which can do what that HiMemX does, and > more... way more. HiMemSX can access memory above the 4 GiB mark! > I've packaged it up also, in case anyone (Jerome?) wants to include > it in the next release or mirror it somewhere other than my site. > Both packaged drivers can be found in the DOS Downloads area at > mercurycoding.com. > That implements a proposed XMS 3.5 interface to support 4 TB > instead of 4 GB of RAM, as far as I remember, with a modified > version of Jack's ramdisk as proof of concept example for what to do > with so much memory. You will probably be ready to keep > updating that package from time to time while initial glitches get fixed, > Yep, he's released three versions already - I foresee a very active project. > :) > but it is a good idea to already offer this as an optional (!) > package to motivate others to update drivers and apps to use the new > possibilities :-) > My thoughts exactly! It's not like any of us feasibly need more > than 4 GiB right now, but the more people who use it on a daily > basis mean more bug reports which mean a more polished product. >> Compared to multithreading and 64-bit long mode projects, XMS 3.5 >> is very close to normal DOS style, so making apps use it should work >> smoothly. I just fail to find examples for stuff which would need so much >> RAM. > Agreed, but I wonder if it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem; do > we have no big-time apps on DOS because DOS can't handle them or > does DOS not handle them because the big-time apps don't exist? lol there is simply no DOS application needing even 100 MB. making more than 4 GB available won't change this. applications needing more then 4GB would probably benefit more from multiple cores. how is your progress on OS/10 ? Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
