At 05:53 PM 5/12/2005 +0200, you wrote:
Do not ask me why CR4 TSD does not work for v86 tasks on some CPUs.
Because Intel made a mistake with it that wasn't fixed until the Pentium Pro, and AMD slavishly followed the error?
I meant more something like "your HIMEM is too old, switching to fixed allocation mode" (auto-activating emm=X where X is a power of 2 and e.g. the biggest power of 2 which is at most half of the amount of free XMS at that moment). Would cause a comfy feeling for those users who followed (outdated, but some users do not realize that) instructions to use the "right" version of HIMEM for their program.
EMM386 used to have a VCPI reserve that was 1/8th, not 1/2, of available memory, with a maximum of 12M. So what happened? I got messages from people complaining about how EMM386 was stealing megabytes of their memory. I'm not having it automatically take half their memory, unless you want your e-mail address at the top of the documentation on a line following the phrase "SEND ALL COMPLAINTS AND PROBLEMS TO:".
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