Norbert Remmel schreef: > In my opinion, we have two people that have made great effords in the > field of DOS memory management, Michael and Jack, both developing an > independant piece of code only because none of them wants to talk to > each other. And then we have the rest of the FreeDOS developers that put > gasoline in the fire. > Just to correct this, the history is: * XMS driver, by Martin Stromberg and others (FDXMS) * FREMM386, never got out of planning phase * HIMEM.EXE , by Tom Ehlert, based on some FDXMS version * EMM386.EXE, by Tom Ehlert, based on a C'T v86 monitor program * HIMEM and EMM386 improvements, by Tom Ehlert and mainly Michael Devore * Jack's programs
and the 3rd major memory driver freely available (without cost) is UMBPCI Both Michael & Jack are great coders and debuggers, but your vision of that working together is required, I don't share. Bernd -- Efficiency is intelligent lazyness ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
