Hallo Herr Bret Johnson,

am Montag, 6. März 2023 um 19:43 schrieben Sie:

>>> 386MAX supports the Global EMM Import Specification (GEMMIS), which
>>> allows Windows 3.x to start in 386 Enhanced mode, even when the EMM
>>> manager is loaded. (The documentation in the 386MAX source code
>>> seems to refer to it as the "Global Paging Import Spec".)386MAX
>>> supports the same I/O port trapping API through INT 2fh that EMM386
>>> provides. This (at least in theory) should make it compatible with
>>> certain emulation TSRs such as SoftMPU and VSB, which currently
>>> don't support JEMM, and would require separate non-trivial ports
>>> to work with JEMM's JLOAD feature.
>>
>> so there would be indeed some point to have 386MAX running.
>> unfortunately  it seems not not work on current real hardware.
>>
>> not sure if it's worth the trouble to debug this.

> Or just take some of the important stuff that Bob Smith and
> Qualitas discovered about Windows/GEMMIS/EMM386 and import it into
> something like JEMM.  There's some knowledge embedded in 386MAX
> about what MS did that you will never directly get out of MS. 

as Jerome said:

"But, that probably won’t happen. A volunteer to work on resolving
the issues that need fixing with 386MAX is unlikely to happen anytime soon. If 
ever.

:-) "


same for extraction of old wisdom and insertion into EMM386

Tom



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