Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 options, was: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-24 Thread Alain
Michael Devore escreveu: At 05:45 PM 8/24/2004 -0300, Alain wrote: Michael Devore escreveu: I could map RAM to X=TEST which is about as safe as you can automatically get for UMB's, but that would appear to break MS compatibility for RAM option. What the heck does the documentation stating that

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 options, was: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-24 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:45 PM 8/24/2004 -0300, Alain wrote: Michael Devore escreveu: I could map RAM to X=TEST which is about as safe as you can automatically get for UMB's, but that would appear to break MS compatibility for RAM option. What the heck does the documentation stating that RAM option uses "all avai

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 options, was: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-24 Thread Alain
Michael Devore escreveu: At 04:30 PM 8/24/2004 -0300, Alain wrote: Michael Devore escreveu: But, (is there always one?) does the "RAM" option fall within "a compatibility problem"? I use it as default for one reason: I install it on any client machine and I don't expect it to do any optimizati

[Freedos-devel] Updated SHARE for DOS 7 compatibility

2004-08-24 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads is the file share.zip. It contains a modified SHARE.C and uncompressed SHARE.COM executable. The changes to SHARE align it with the behavior expected from a DOS 7 share utility by removing several conditions which previously returned an error

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 options, was: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-24 Thread Michael Devore
At 04:30 PM 8/24/2004 -0300, Alain wrote: Michael Devore escreveu: But, (is there always one?) does the "RAM" option fall within "a compatibility problem"? I use it as default for one reason: I install it on any client machine and I don't expect it to do any optimization, but to provide _some_

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-24 Thread Alain
Michael Devore escreveu: But, (is there always one?) does the "RAM" option fall within "a compatibility problem"? I use it as default for one reason: I install it on any client machine and I don't expect it to do any optimization, but to provide _some_ UMB which ususaly makes a better system as

Re: [Freedos-devel] The bastion of Open Source advertises Microsoft

2004-08-24 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Welcome back, Jim! The link you are trying to link to is actually on Microsoft's web site, not SourceForge. But the link was placed on the SourceForge site, inside the top banner. So no, this is not the "end" of Open Source. My "end of open source" comment was slightly ironic. I was just scandali

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-24 Thread Michael Devore
At 10:31 PM 8/24/2004 +0800, Johnson Lam wrote: Sorry for my stupidity, I really have no idea what's happen in SB Emulation. Last test is a failure. It always report cannot load something into memory (I'll clean up the mess and post again). SoundBlaster requires that you use an EMM= setting in EMM3

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-24 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:10 PM 8/24/2004 -0300, Alain wrote: But, (is there always one?) does the "RAM" option fall within "a compatibility problem"? I use it as default for one reason: I install it on any client machine and I don't expect it to do any optimization, but to provide _some_ UMB which ususaly makes a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-24 Thread Alain
Hi Michael, I believe that you made you position cristal clear. Not only I respect that but I agree with it. And many thanks for what you have done so far :)) But, (is there always one?) does the "RAM" option fall within "a compatibility problem"? I use it as default for one reason: I install it

Re: [Freedos-devel] The bastion of Open Source advertises Microsoft

2004-08-24 Thread Jim Hall
Luchezar Georgiev wrote: Is this the end of Open Source? SourceForge currently advertises Microsoft Server 2003 saying that it outperforms every RedHat configuration tested. Here's the banner link URL (don't click on it!): http://ad.doubleclick.net/click%3Bh=v3|3171|3|0|*|a%3B10271864%3B0-0%3B0%

[Freedos-devel] The bastion of Open Source advertises Microsoft

2004-08-24 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Is this the end of Open Source? SourceForge currently advertises Microsoft Server 2003 saying that it outperforms every RedHat configuration tested. Here's the banner link URL (don't click on it!): http://ad.doubleclick.net/click%3Bh=v3|3171|3|0|*|a%3B10271864%3B0-0%3B0%3B9754113%3B3454-728|90%3

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-24 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 03:02:52 -0500, you wrote: Hi, Sorry for my stupidity, I really have no idea what's happen in SB Emulation. Last test is a failure. It always report cannot load something into memory (I'll clean up the mess and post again). Because I can access that SBLIVE PC once a week. I'

Re: [Freedos-devel] Chinese system not running?

2004-08-24 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:32:58 +0300, you wrote: Hi Lucho, >> I've Chinese system which run into problem but I never reported, because >> it's stupid to spend time for that piece of customized software which >> few of us will use. > >Few of *us* here maybe, but how many millions of Chinese users

Re: [Freedos-devel] Chinese system not running?

2004-08-24 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
I've Chinese system which run into problem but I never reported, because it's stupid to spend time for that piece of customized software which few of us will use. Few of *us* here maybe, but how many millions of Chinese users use it? ;-) --- SF.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-24 Thread Michael Devore
At 03:34 PM 8/24/2004 +0800, Johnson Lam wrote: >Verification needs to be either by my testing here or via a reasonably >detailed explanation by a reliable source as to why the feature is desired >or necessary. Alternatively, if you have incontrovertible proof that a >new EMM386 option is vital t

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-24 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:04:18 -0500, you wrote: Hi Michael, >Verification needs to be either by my testing here or via a reasonably >detailed explanation by a reliable source as to why the feature is desired >or necessary. Alternatively, if you have incontrovertible proof that a >new EMM386 o