Eric Auer wrote:
<< please do not use HTML mail. Use plain text instead. Thanks... >>
Many apologies. I hadn't noticed.
<< You should indeed try the UDMA2 driver (only for PCI/newer
systems, and UDMA probably has to be enabled in BIOS first, not
supported in SCSI). In addition, you should load a cache.
Of course I recommend lbacache >>
Will do when I move over from the old pre-1997 non-pentium machine to one of
my others. lbacache sounds great. Thanks Eric.
<< Do not forget to load HIMEM and use DOS=HIGH in your config sys.
Best performance is probably WITHOUT EMM386 ... tradeoff between ... >>
As a newbie to DOS who knows no better, I have:
BUFFERS=15 ...
DEVICE=c:\fdos\bin\himem.exe
DEVICE=c:\fdos\bin\emm386.exe (without NOEMS)
DOS=HIGH,UMB ...
I'm primarily using the machine to run the dos/freedos desktop environment
which is written in C using djgpp. djgpp provides a 32-bit (protected mode?)
extension to DOS (except we still appear to be limited to 8.3 filenames).
So, I have no idea whether I should or shouldn't use EMM386.
<< PS: Seal dead? Probably, but you could get the sources of the last
version to revive them instead of rewriting everything, I guess... >>
I had a go at working on Seal's source code, but couldn't fathom some of
their code, and the forum, development team and support appears to have
fizzled out. In the end I decided that the only way forward was to work it
out for myself and write my own code which I can understand and can heavily
comment for future reference. I've written extensively in several other
languages -- but C, too, is all very new to me.
Thanks again, Eric.
Eric T.
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