Eric Auer wrote: >The XMS swap feature means: Copy most of FreeCOM to XMS while a program >is running, and mark the memory as free. So FreeCOM LOOKS as if it would >be only 3 kilobytes small in RAM. ... >Having a version which is 8086 compatible but uses XMS Swap is a very special >choice for "universal" boot disks:
In other words, it is what I thought it is. However, most versions of COMMAND.COM (indeed,all of MS,DR,PC and PTS I ever used) also keep only a small part of them permanently in RAM, but reload from disk instead: COMSPEC= path if set, if not, SHELL= path and if nothing else, from the boot disk. This is slower than from XMS but not by much if COMSPEC= points to a ramdisk. I always thought non-xmsswap versions of FreeCOM also behave this way. Don't them ? If not, do you know why ? JAS ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
