Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.0 Released

[Arkady V.B. <ar...@be...>]

Hi!

28-=E1=D0=D2-2005 19:13 _Fr...@de... (Michael Devore)=
 wrote to
fre...@li...:

MD> With the /X2MAX32 option of HIMEM, full XMS memory is still available=
 for
MD> both XMS 2.0 and 3.0 functions, and is fully reported on XMS 3.0 func=
tions,
MD> eliminating the previous need to literally reduce all available memor=
y to
MD> <32M via HIMEM's MAX option get Aladdin to run.

MD> complain if /? is present.  Use of /? will henceforth be known as the
MD> Arkady gambit.

     :)

MD> Since the EMS and VCPI allocators are now decoupled, I reduced maximu=
m
MD> available EMS to "industry-standard" 32M.  Mostly this was done becau=
se
MD> silly EMS-using programs became confused if more than 32M was
MD> available.  Pumping it back up to 512M would be a small change, but
MD> probably unnecessary for anyone.

     Isn't it possible to _increase_ available EMS memory through options
(or, as with x2max32, make available all memory notwithstanding reported
value)?

MD> There is a fix to INT 15h, function 87 in EMM386, but I have forgotte=
n the
MD> details.  Eric Auer can supply them in exhaustive detail, should one =
wish.

     This fix was allows to work FD-EMM386 over MS-HIMEM.