On Sat, 21 Dec 2024, Eric Auer via Freedos-devel wrote:
As Win3 came bundled with MS HIMEM and MS EMM386, people only
need a compatible FreeDOS kernel to use Win3 in 386enh mode
without needing MS DOS. Of course it would be interesting to
have compatible open source HIMEM and EMM386 alternatives to
better support newer hardware, but no big problem for now.
This is probably the main thing to note.
Also, an old version of emm386 is available with the MS-DOS 4 code drop.
Although himem.sys isn't part of the drop, I do have the source to the
version that came with 4 (from a Windows 2.x OEM kit) - whether that's
"fair game" or not is another story, but Microsoft has released versions
from around that time period along with the XMS specifications, and it's
at least within the spirit of the license (i.e., "it's part of MS-DOS 4,
MS-DOS 4 was MIT'd, therefore it should be reasonable to consider it MIT'd
the same as MS-DOS 4"). YMMV. But either way, Windows 3.x has always
come with its own versions of himem and emm386 specifically because it was
designed to run on versions of DOS that did not originally come with them;
some other Microsoft tools from the time also bundled himem.
It's safe to assume Microsoft himem and emm386 will be available when
using Win3.x because they're installed by default.
Am I right in saying that even though development is still continuing on
the inside, because of a left-hand-right-hand issue or similar those
changes aren't getting out into the releases and therefore it looks like
nothing's happening from the outside?
-uso.
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