from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter):
MS Edit from Win95 is really good.
Can load huge files, and can handle up to 9 files.
I have just tried Pedit ... many features and it's really great, but it
cannot handle large files, and I have found no way of switching between
multiple files with hotkeys. (like in ms edit with alt1-alt9)
> Is there any distinction between protected mode and real mode on Alpha,
> PowerPC and Ultra Sparc, or do these modes have no meaning?
There is no real mode ...
(if Intels first processor would have been the 386 than there would also be
no real mode on intel chips.
Real mode was invented to stay compatible with the early bad chipdesigns
(8086))
(end of quote)
Now will Intel's Itanium and AMD's Sledgehammer have real mode?
I tried Pedit but quickly deleted it when I found it would not handle a file of
slightly > 400 KB.
EPM (OS/2) can handle large files and can handle > 9 files at one time. I've
been up to 15, but most were not huge. Maybe EPM could take 15 huge files if I
had 256 MB RAM?
286 could return from protected to real mode, with the help of LOADALL
instruction, but 16-bit addressing with selectors was awkward compared to the
flat memory model with 32-bit addressing.
Thunking actually refers to communication between 16-bit (selector) and 32-bit
(flat) segments, when code in one segment calls a function in the other, even
though all is in protected mode.
I don't think DR-DOS multitasker ever hung on my computer, but DOS Lynx386 kept
running out of memory, so I could see this task manager was not up to serious
business.
