Hi
11 Jan 2001, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> "Size matters not". The size of the file on disk is useless to
>> compare with since very little of it is loaded in memory. Please
>> remember that MS-DOS 7.x has more features than DR-DOS 7.x (so far
>> anyway).
SH> It would seem that the components not loaded in conventional memory
SH> would have to be loaded in high memory or in the UMB area,
no ...
some are simply _not_ loaded !
The part that stays in memory is smaller than the resident part in memory.
IMagine it ... EXE HEADER is useless, some funtctions needed for the EXE
(eg /? help screen) are not needed by the resident part.
Smartdrv has eg a CD-ROM caching module, you can choose not to install it,
so it is in the exe file, but not in memory.
Command.com has IMHO a table with strings (messages, ...) which it loads
from command.com file, if needed, ......
>> That can be found on the install CD (in the oldmsdos directory).
SH> Didn't know about that one either.
I have forgotten it as well ;)
But I never ever used these utilities, even when they were part of M$ DS
6.2 ;)
>> Why would you want to do that (complicate the booting procedure) for
>> the Windows users? Remember that MS-DOS 7.x is designed for Win9x.
SH> It is no complicated matter for anyone to simply type the three
SH> letter word "WIN" on a line in AUTOEXEC.BAT. That is how it is done
SH> with WINDOWS 3.x.
but it is not necessary for anyone who
1) does not know what dos is
2) hates command line
3) wants allways a graphical desktop
4) ....
98% of 'normal' computerusers (not freaks :) fall into this category, so M$
decided to boot directly into windows ...
SH> All the best,
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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