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My Thanks, Arjay! (Announce)

posted by Jack E-mail, Fresno, California USA, 06.05.2010, 01:00

> Firstly a personal "thank you" for your continuing to update your good
> work.
My Thanks, Arjay -- as I have noted to Japheth and others, I in fact DO
take "responsibility" for maintaining UIDE and my other drivers, so DOS
will SURVIVE!

> ... If we were discussing XMGR then I would probably say that size is
> still an important consideration in relation to embedded setups ...
I hope my comments about "embedded" addresses/code in the upper-memory
space did not confuse you -- UIDE is meant for ANY type of DOS system,
not just desktops, "embeddeds", etc. Users whose upper-memory is not
contiguous, due to "embedded" I-O addresses, SCSI/USB "ROM BIOS" chips
etc., may need to load UIDE /P in "low" DOS memory, so it can then get
enough memory for its cache tables.

> That all said, if size over your improved protected mode functionality
> is still important to someone, then I guess someone could revert to
> using an earlier version of UIDE ...
Perhaps so. I never save older versions since (A) my Father was a
"packrat" (saved EVERYTHING!) and I do NOT want to be that way, and
(B) I always have a good reason for my updates -- most DO render my
prior drivers "obsolete". In any event, FreeDOS IBiblio has older
XMGR/UIDE/DISK drivers, and users who want them can go there.

> Hope this feedback helps. Thanks again for your good work.
Definitely -- ALL feedback appreciated, and my Thanks to you again!

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