Gruess Gott, On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 10:12 AM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > It seems that FreeDOS 1.2 currently includes UIDE.
"Currently"?? The full 1.2 release was from late 2016 / early 2017. It hasn't changed. As far as I'm concerned, UIDE [sic] died in 2015. > It would probably be better to use UHDD and UDVD2 instead: That makes no sense (to me). UHDD.SYS (from 2015) indeed had a surprise update in early 2019 (dunno what changed, ask Jim), but UDVD2.SYS is still dated 2015. * https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/cdrom/uide/ "It would probably be better" ... if XIDE/XHDD/XDVD2 (or whatever he calls it nowadays) wasn't unjustly "closed source" for five years! That would've saved a lot of end users tons of frustration. Then again, most of them "just use Linux", it works! (I'm on a Chromebook now. Isn't "Free Software" great?? GPL FTW!) > Those Which exactly? Where are they? What versions? > have better performance Than who? Which versions exactly? > and better 80386 style XMS compatibility XMSv3? (You know that DR-DOS 7.03's XMS faked its version number and really only supported XMSv2, i.e. 64 MB limit.) > on old computers Which? Actually 386 or 486 cpus? Pre-LBA BIOSes? > , as well as improved drive detection, DMA choices, support for disks above > 128 GB size and more good news :-) How is that even possible? Too many versions, too many (alleged) bug fixes! Ridiculous! > Thanks for considering! These decisions (for FD 1.3) rely mostly on Jerome and Jim. But discussing these drivers is always a huge waste of time. I'm tired of hearing about it. It's unproductive, to put it politely. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
