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

> Hi, I did not want to humiliate Tom, but the fact that it took him
> so long to do the changes HE wanted suggest that it will take long
> for ANYBODY to add the changes WE want (VCPI, > 64 MB). Protected
> mode is just a tricky bussiness.

protected mode is tricky business.
LARGE assembler programs are tricky.
living in a debug-free environment is tricky.

 
> That the emm386 on which Tom's is based ran mostly as TSR is interesting
> to know, maybe FreeDOS emm386 can also become TSRable then.

what the hell would be the purpose of that?
TSR is *trivial* to to, compared with items above.


> Of course, Windows and Linux and ... are more MEANT to be 32bit, but
> BOOT Wine), I have no problems with being happy about 16/32bit DPMI
> software running with plain DOS.

may I suggest to use linux?

> If you do not want to reboot dozens of times during driver development,
> I recomment www.DOSEMU.org 

I recommend WinNT/2K/XP, or LINUX.


tom