"Bret Johnson" wrote :
>From my perspective, whether the XBDA, master
> environment, or anything else is at the top of memory
> instead of the bottom shouldn't make any difference, as long
> as there's an MCB to identify and "protect" it.
I see... following a very famous lead, you think that 640
> I see... following a very famous lead, you think that 640 kilo
> bytes are more DOS memory than anybody will ever want :=)
No, that's not what I'm saying at all. One thing I am trying to say is that if
you're going to use DOS memory, then you should use the memory allocation
functions provi
>>> I'm surprised you have to question this!
>>after ~12 years without anybody complaining, I'm surprised about you
>> complaining.
> How many users do you have ?
I have no idea - and don't care.
> Of these, how many understands this level of detail, /and/ in addition, will
> care ?
answering t
Tom,
>> How many users do you have ?
> I have no idea - and don't care.
>> Of these, how many understands this level of detail, /and/ in addition, will
>> care ?
> answering this question would imply that /you/ understand the problem.
> you don't.
Now, is that not arrogance ! This kind of rem
Hi Bertho,
maybe Tom does not have the patience to explain you
why there are good reasons why FreeDOS does things
the way they are done, but you can trust him :-) If
you take the time to FULLY understand the issue and
then have exact ideas on how to do things yet better,
you are most welcome to s
Bertho ???,
>>> Casually peeking at Freecom source, branch MAIN, init.c v 1.31,
> ...
>>> I'm not sure what is to be gained by using 'lastfit' even in upper memory.
> ...
>>> Hoping someone will take the challenge,
>> left as an exercise to the reader. suffice it to say: you wouldn't like the
>>