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With Regret, Shall Not Update UIDE /P! (Announce)

posted by Arjay, 07.05.2010, 21:38

> As noted to Japheth in private E-Mail, I apologize to all for being a
> SLOW thinker, and I will go on trying to think of BETTER improvements
> for UIDE!
No need to apologize. I think it is good to have improvements which benefit older hardware as well as new hardware. In some situations burning up upper memory might not be such a bad thing. e.g. I have in the past setup dedicated single task real mode DOS PC's where I have had to let upper memory go to waste but would have happily used it for improved disk caching. e.g. my caller logger was real mode and let high mem go to waste as not much mem was needed. I am also aware of a several people with large legacy real mode databases on earlier hardware where some memory is still spare but drives can not be so easily replaced etc. You know the 20 year old PC in the corner type of setups which now have 20 years of data in a large database.

Would it be complex/add too much bloat to implement both methods in UIDE? e.g. /P and /P2 with a similar watch out like you did with the /H options in the readme? Let the end user decide the appropriate method?

Note: I am just thinking about flexibility rather than saying please do this.

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