Like others have said, anything (like the fictitious "64-bit DPMI") which has 1) little or no working code as of today (precedent/compatibility/feature parity with MS 3.3/6.22), 2) has a high a degree of complexity (achieveable), 3) requires a large dedication of man-hours to complete, 3) has little or no past, present, or future audience (value/benefit) ought to be on the short list of features to chop.
I threw it out there though maybe I shouldn't have. Something more achievable would be to get Charles Sandmann to release his "36-bit" CWSDPMI source (a DPMI server capable of providing 36-bit address space to P6 compatible processors). There's beta binaries in the wild. Though value/benefit is dubious; 32-bit DPMI apps would run fine on machines upto 64GB (the benefit), but there would be little or no software that could directly make use of more than 4GB at a time (dubios benefit). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
