At 09:09 PM 3/15/2005 +0100, Bernd Blaauw wrote:
Isn't XMS 3.0 used if available anyway? Or only if detected by a certain program (which might lack a detection method for XMS 3.0 but not for 2.0).
My semi-educated guess is that the more than half of DOS programs which could use XMS 3.0 (i.e. 386 required) still use XMS 2.0. Not to mention the shared code between the two APIs is quite large.
I'm not volunteering, but it doesn't sound like fixing FDXMS286 would be terribly difficult. It had to mostly work at one time. Whacking the bell should be trivial, anyway.
Unfortunately, with negative side-effects from the FDX* and HIMEM/EMM386 fork and subsequent events, development communication is, ahem, limited. If we get to draft people, Eric and/or Aitor would be good candidates. They have the programming ability and apparently no one on either side is (more than normally) mad at them. Or a sweet-talking diplomatic type might convince the original FDXMS developer to make the changes/fixes. Or bribes. Money, flattery, chocolate, cheese, beer, liquor, young female, choice World of Warcraft items, something ought to work.
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