[Freedos-devel] Re: your config / cache tricks

2005-06-29 Thread Alain
Hi Eric... I am bringing back this talk to the list. I believe more people can beneffit from it there, and some can help too... rem dos=umb why not? :-). plus dosdata=umb ... This is what makes raw speed slow. Very slow. I do not think so. It will be slow if CERTAIN drivers are loaded to

[Freedos-devel] TriDOS developement (ASM, Taskmanager)

2005-06-29 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi! Christian Schneider told me, that he wants to improve the taskmanager TriDOS. But he has problems with INIT.ASM in line 330 (call SetPM), which starts protected mode: ;(SetPM:) mov ah, PM_IRQ0 ;(20h) mov dx, PIC_MASTER ;(20h) ;(call InitPic) mov al, CMD_ICW1 (11h) out dx, al After this

Re: [Freedos-devel] Consolidating the FreeDOS lists

2005-06-29 Thread Jim Hall
Jeremy would like to keep freedos-cvs and freedos-kernel, but I think it's safe to assume we can close down the other lists I mentioned. I'll comment out freedos-devel-net, freedos-freecom, and fd-doc-list from the FreeDOS Mailing Lists page. If no further objections, I'll close down these 3

[Freedos-devel] [Fwd: Slowness and calccach]

2005-06-29 Thread Alain
This was private, bu I forwarding to the list. I believe it can be of general interest. The list is devel after all... Hi... In fact DOS=HIGH also makes it slow too, but only around 10 to 20%. Expected. It puts BUFFERS into HMA but avoids to access them directly there, so you get one extra

[Freedos-devel] Re: Slowness and calccach

2005-06-29 Thread Alain
Hi, I will keep further discussion in the list, please Eric answer in the list too. It is the same with UMBPCI or EMM386. Loading UMDA low, or the /L switch makes no difference. Very strange. How about not loading ANY drivers into UMB and just enabling UMBs in general (DOS=UMB,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Slowness and calccach

2005-06-29 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:14:18 -0300, you wrote: Hi, Jack said MS-DOS never have this problem (slowdown). I'm interested to know is the FreeDOS Kernel or just the memory manager that cause the slowdown. Eric have doubts but I got no time for some well documented tests. I'll try to make it.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Slowness and calccach

2005-06-29 Thread Alain
Hi Johnson, Johnson Lam escreveu: Jack said MS-DOS never have this problem (slowdown). I'm interested to know is the FreeDOS Kernel or just the memory manager that cause the slowdown. Eric have doubts but I got no time for some well documented tests. I'll try to make it. I can help with