At 09:13 PM 6/2/2005 +0200, Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote:
Michael Devore escribió:
At 03:07 PM 5/3/2005 -0500, I wrote:
Ha! What is up with these goofball extender limitations? RAR32 uses
RSX extender. I can't decide if there is a weird bug in EMM386 that
makes DOS/32A unhappy with >256M and RSX >429M, or if the weirdness is
in the extenders themselves.
Precisely I wanted to ask about EMX/RSX, as it seems quite difficult to
google.
- what EMX is exactly
- how does it relate to RSX.EXE?
- how does it compare to WDOSX, if it can be compared?
EMX/RSX came from one or more of the GCC camp of DOS-compatible
developers. It appears pretty old, older than WDOSX. Think it should have
been superseded by CWSDPMI, since there are references to the older GO32
extender coincident with EMX/RSX documentation, but maybe not.
EMX must be necessary for OS/2 besides RSX because OS/2 is a DPMI server
and DPMI is EMX's responsibility.
The basic explanation I came up with on brief research is that RSX is the
VCPI-based extender and EMX is the glue to provide an interface to an
existing DPMI server and/or acts as a DPMI server itself. EMX is dependent
on RSX being present, but RSX is only dependent on EMX for DPMI
services. That understanding could be wrong or backwards.
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