Hi,
On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 7:45 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
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> On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 at 17:55, Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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> > I believe "task swapping" was one of the main benefits of a 286.
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> It's not a 286 hardware feature, no.
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> It's a feature of DOS-compatible OSes
Hi!
VCPI was a superset of EMS, right?
I don't think so, no.
VCPI can be added to EMM386 to let it coexist with DOS extenders.
VCPI itself does not provide EMS.
EMS can exist in hardware on 8086, where DOS extenders cannot exist.
EMS itself is not related to VCPI.
The other complication
On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 at 17:55, Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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> I never used DOSShell much. I always used other file managers
I wasn't really talking about its use as a file manager. Personally I
barely touched that. I don't need or massively want a file manager.
The uses of DOSshell that I a
