Johnson Lam has posted a new 7-Mar-2012 DRIVERS.ZIP file with a much smaller UIDE2, on his website at:
<http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/driver.html> The UIDE2 driver, for faster speed with a protected mode system (JEMM386/JEMMEX etc.), is now less than 7K bytes in size! To achieve this, I needed to do two changes in UIDE2 -- (A) It will now run 30 BIOS disks/diskettes rather than 34, and (B) it will not handle the /N3 "No XMS memory" switch. Otherwise, UIDE2 is the same as before. Few PC systems have 30 BIOS units; most DOS systems allow drive letters A: to Z: and so can handle only 26 units! Also, Bernd Blaauw recently asked which driver, UIDE or UIDE2, he should use in his FreeDOS "autoloader" scripts. I answered "UIDE", as it is more versatile, will handle up to a 4-GB cache, and will always have /N3 for FreeDOS support. So, the two new changes in UIDE2 should not affect anyone. Only slight changes to UIDE (assembled via the same source file as UIDE2) and no changes to XMGR/RDISK. UIDE2 should help "boot" diskettes users and others whose systems need to save file space. Also, I am again back to only a single UIDE.ASM source file -- My own "XIDE" driver (based upon UIDE2) is now GONE and all of its features have been "folded into" the new UIDE2! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
