DOS ain't dead

VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) BUG hunting (DOSX)

posted by jassenna, Campinas,SP,Brazil, 06.09.2007, 06:14

This is going far astray from the original topic. If anyone would like to discuss these matters, I think we should start a new thread.

> and not everything
> coming from "Windows" is good at all.

I never said the contrary.

> This is definitely NOT true.
> ... and you had luck with your
> XMS&EMS, but generally DPMI32 is more stable than XMS, even even than EMS.
> EMS is crap (except 8086's EMS via additional memory cards, maybe)

Maybe, but as far as a program does all its memory management trough standard calls to a memory manager built together with the OS, it is very unlikely to cause a crash. On the other side, every DOS-extended program will in turn take control of the whole machine memory management, each one working in a way somewhat different from any other.

Complete thread:

• VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) - Rugxulo, 22.07.2007, 00:50 (DOSX)
  • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) - rr, 22.07.2007, 21:27
    • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) - DOS386, 23.07.2007, 02:38
      • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) - rr, 23.07.2007, 09:21
    • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) - Rugxulo, 25.07.2007, 01:16
      • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) - jassenna, 27.08.2007, 01:27
        • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) - Rugxulo, 27.08.2007, 01:39
          • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) - roberto, 27.08.2007, 13:40
            • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) - rr, 27.08.2007, 17:47
        • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) BUG hunting - DOS386, 29.08.2007, 15:34
          • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) BUG hunting - rr, 29.08.2007, 21:42
            • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) BUG hunting - Rugxulo, 30.08.2007, 03:28
          • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) BUG hunting - jassenna, 06.09.2007, 06:14