On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Luchezar Georgiev wrote:

> But the inodes have NRV (Not Really Vanished ;-) and their new place (UMB)
> could be HMA instead. Are there any problems moving them there? Because
> UMBPCI doesn't make too many UMBs :(

They can be in the HMA unlike the SFTs (like Tom said).

> > I think (am not 100% sure though) we have beaten both MSDOS and DRDOS
> > (without QEMM) in that respect then.
>
> MS-DOS 7.1 has 645728 bytes free (the kernel occupies 9632 bytes) and
> PC-DOS 7.1 has 645952 bytes free (the kernel occupies 9408 bytes). So
> we've come very close, but haven't beaten them.

yes, but what's important is how much we really have free. DRDOS also has
less kernel bytes but there was no way I could convince it to put
command.com (even 4dos) completely in a UMB... (unlike our shellhigh).
There was always something low left behind.

> HOWEVER...
>
> The patched kernel behaves very strangely! :-( It outputs an error for
> DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIRAM.EXE line and doesn't load it and repeates this with
> many other lines (but not all). For my simpler floppy configuration, it
> doesn't load HIMEM64.EXE without even showing an error!

ok, please note the simplest configuration (config.sys contents, the
HIMEM64 version you use (size in bytes as well)) -- and try with a Watcom
compiled kernel just to make sure I can reproduce.

Bart



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