On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 some message from Willy J. Hoogstraten appeared before...
>I don't know much about himem.sys. Only that the Win98 himem.sys is very
>small in memory (20 kb less than the one from Win95) and it has a higher
>limit than _all_ others (maybe Win2000 is better, but I never used it yet).
That's because the win95 himem.sys had a little bug, that didn't let it
free some memory it was using.. They fixed it in Win95 OSR2.1
>But emm386.exe from DR-DOS (7.03) is very good and doesn't require himem.sys.
Because emm386 isn't a XMS memory management tool, but a EMS memory
management tool.. EMS is bad stuff.. locks up many of boxes
randomly.. Juck i hate EMS ;)
>DR-DOS is also good with it's DPMI-support. I know that people who use
>DJGPP 2.xx don't like it, but DJGPP has no support for DR-DOS at all.
>(programs compiled with it often flush the nwcache!).
>But DJGPP is an enormous monster itself and makes huge programs (30 KB
>compressed for a clearscreen program, which is ca. 20 bytes in ASM).
That's because of all the libaries linked in DJGPP, but if you write large
programs you'll get more efficient code when using DJGPP instead of
Assembly..
>Most of the times if emm386.exe causes a system-hang, it's because of badly
>written software.
No, it isn't badly written ;) It's just EMS ;)
>The DOS text editors are both not nice, I prefer Pedit
>(from www.goldshell.com).
I Prefer Q ;)
>DR-DOS's fdisk is much better than MS-DOS's fdisk. There's only one big
>bug in it. If one creates less than 4 part's, they are not counted the
>right way. Eg, if one makes only one part., it's called the 4th (?).
Actually that's correct... it's kinda strange, but it's actually the way
it's supossed to work, but as we al now MS-DOS fdisk doesn't support
making multiple primary partitions..
>The weakest points of DR-DOS (7.03) are:
>1) it doen't support FAT32.
>2) there's no compiler, assembler or image-viewer part of the distribution.
>3) there's bad support from software developers. (eg, most cdplay programs
> detect MSCDEX and won't work with NWCDEX).
That's because you should NEVER use any other CDROM Driver that
MSCDEX. 99% of all software applications are for MSCDEX and won't work on
any other CD Rom Extensions
>The weakest points of stand-alone MS-DOS are:
>1) it doesn't support FAT32.
>2) there's no compiler, assembler or image-viewer part of the distribution.
>3) stand-alone versions are too old (6.22 is from 1994), no updates expected.
Duh, microsoft is dumping DOS completely, even Windows 2000 doesn't got a
dos thingie anymore ;) it's just the command interpeter from NT ;)
>4) it's too slow and too much memory-consuming.
Got any benchmarks ?
>5) it has no commandline-editing (as far as I know).
Yes it has ;) It's called doskey ;)
>6) there is no support at all for passwords and other protection.
>7) it is still not available as free download.
Why would you want to use FAT32 anyway ?? Running DOS on a system with
over 2 GB's isn't sane. If you got more that 2 GB i would go for linux if
you don't want that lame windows...
>I guess that MS should win the race if they bring a newer version, but they
>won't. Not that I like MS, but one can see in the Win98 version that they
>know enough about it (eg. look at the size of command.COM > 64 KB).
If they would release a new DOS version they would be kicking in their own
windows. Why don't you start using the WIN98 Command.com, makes an
excellent DOS enviroment..
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Met vriendelijke groet,
Cliff Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
