Re: [Freedos-devel] 386MAX

On Mon, 6 Mar 2023, Bret Johnson wrote: Or just take some of the important stuff that Bob Smith and Qualitas discovered about Windows/GEMMIS/EMM386 and import it into something like JEMM. There's some knowledge embedded in 386MAX about what MS did that you will never directly get out of MS.

Re: [Freedos-devel] 386MAX

Hallo Herr Bret Johnson, am Montag, 6. März 2023 um 19:43 schrieben Sie: >>> 386MAX supports the Global EMM Import Specification (GEMMIS), which >>> allows Windows 3.x to start in 386 Enhanced mode, even when the EMM >>> manager is loaded. (The documentation in the 386MAX source code >>> seems to

Re: [Freedos-devel] 386MAX

>> 386MAX supports the Global EMM Import Specification (GEMMIS), which >> allows Windows 3.x to start in 386 Enhanced mode, even when the EMM >> manager is loaded. (The documentation in the 386MAX source code >> seems to refer to it as the "Global Paging Import Spec".)386MAX >> supports the same I/

Re: [Freedos-devel] 386MAX

Hallo Herr tom ehlert, am Montag, 6. März 2023 um 10:14 schrieben Sie: > Hallo Herr jer...@shidel.net, >> Any volunteers? > to start first: what would be the point to have 386MAX in freedos > distribution (after 20 years without it)? > I know that it was somewhat important in the middle ages,

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2303

Hi Jerome, > However, it should be tested that it creates a single 2gb FAT-16 partition on > real hardware. It will also need tested from other booted install media under > other circumstances as well. today I tested the live CD. At least on my hardware it creates a single 2 GB FAT-16 partiti

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

On Sun, 5 Mar 2023 at 03:44, Bret Johnson wrote: > Interesting, but that's not the kind of re-entrancy I'm talking about. The > discussion in stackoverflow is about multitasking kernels, not re-entrant > kernels. I'm talking about something where you can "spawn" a whole new OS > when you wan

Re: [Freedos-devel] 386MAX

Hi Tom, > On Mar 6, 2023, at 4:14 AM, tom ehlert wrote: > > Hallo Herr jer...@shidel.net , > > am Sonntag, 5. März 2023 um 22:43 schrieben Sie: > >> Hi all, > >> I spent a few minutes looking at 386MAX. > >> Unfortunately, it is going to take at least a some work

Re: [Freedos-devel] 386MAX

Hallo Herr jer...@shidel.net, am Sonntag, 5. März 2023 um 22:43 schrieben Sie: > Hi all, > I spent a few minutes looking at 386MAX. > Unfortunately, it is going to take at least a some work by someone > (not me) before it could even be considered for inclusion. > First, it cannot even be run