Hi Johnson,
But Jack did give his "true heart" advise to some people, to avoid using FDXMS and HIMEM, not because of the author, just because of they both have programming flaw!
Ah, so throw away MANY hours of work, as FDXMS and HIMEM are too "bad" for Jack to even touch them? Why does he have to write a completely "new" QHIMEM based on somebody else's commercial XMS driver sources instead...?
Do offer QHIMEM in private to Mark Bailey. If he questions this, tell him to read the first 50 lines of the FDXMS source, that note interrupts are left DISABLED across an XMS move, which may hurt him!
Now we are getting somewhere. Jack thinks that leaving interrupts disabled for too long during XMS moves is bad. And this is why he thinks that FDXMS is evil? It would have been an idea to tell the FDXMS maintainer that enabling interrupts from time to time during a move would improve FDXMS. Probably Jack thinks that the FDXMS maintainer is too stupid to read email from Jack? Or maybe he wrote a mail "Mr FDXMS maintainer, you are stupid because you leave interrupts disabled", and this is because FDXMS did not get updated (as insults do not make people follow advice)? Sorry for the harsh words, but I hope you get the idea... The bug is not a few flaws in FDXMS or HIMEM. They could be fixed. The bug is in the hearts of a few programmers who are too proud to notify each other about bugs in their software, politely. Eric PS: I doubt that Mark Bailey understands Assembly language or the technical details related to writing XMS drivers ;-). ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
