> The latter suggestion is especially important if you want to make
> DISPLAY a real DEVICE. Other than an EXE (with heap specification in
> the header), the SYS would have to be an huge file, 60k or something,
> unless you allocate the buffers dynamically.
or you use .EXE style sys-files, of course.

> PS: This was "kernel problems and problem loading high DISPLAY" on
> freedos-kernel before. But I think it is not a kernel problem.
I may be wrong, but I seem to remember, that MSDOS allocates at least
64k for .COM style programs.
If that would be the case, MSDOS would load DISPLAY silently low.
Not even sure if FreeDOS tries to load into small upper memory blocks.

tom




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