Re: [Freedos-devel] dosshell and task swapping, was: dir issues

2023-07-31 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
Hi, On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 12:19 PM Eric Auer via Freedos-devel wrote: > > VCPI was a small interface added to things like EMM386 which gave other > apps access to things they would normally no longer reach after DOS gets > locked up in a VM86 task by EMM386. While it is nice that it is small,

Re: [Freedos-devel] dosshell and task swapping, was: dir issues

2023-07-30 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
Hi Rugxulo, [3] Windows 3.0 started to catch on. That meant HIMEM.SYS and XMS as standard; LIM-spec EMS started to fade. Apps like 1-2-3 r3 used DOS extenders routinely. Memory management really got important but everyone was buying 386SXs so you could sell them QEMM even if they didn't want