Hi Bruce!
10 Nov 2002, Bruce Burdekin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
BB> anyone know what causes x-swap errors in general, and using Arachne in
BB> particular?
X-swap errors only happen in Arachne :-)
because x-swap is an arachne invention.
They are caused by bugs in arachne.
x-swap errors only occur because of the crappy memory handling in real-mode.
(in real mode you can only access 1 MB)
A DJGPP version of arachne would get rid of x-swap and therfor x-swap errors,
because it uses the protected mode, and this has a 32 bit flat memory modell.
BB> One reason for re-visiting DR-DOS was to see if its
BB> memory handling is any better than DOS7 I'm currently using!
It's generally not DOS that causes problems. (except drdos emm386 and its DPMI
provision which is still buggy)
BB> Bruce in Sunny Blenheim
CU, Ricsi
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