Re: UMB and 386/486 --> status of FreeDOS emm386 etc.

Michal Tyc <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:37:26 +0200

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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 03:46:40 +0200 (MEST), Eric Auer wrote:

> Hi, to react to "please have ONE memory manager only":
> This is not really a good idea, here is why:

> DR DOS emm386: XMS, EMS, UMB, DPMI, VCPI, not GPL

and multithreading/multitasking

> DR DOS himem: not GPL

And both are limited to 64 Mbytes (DR-EMM386 supports more with
a third-party HIMEM, as Win95 one). In rare cases you may even have
problems with DR-EMM386 with more than 16 Mbytes.

Michal