[arachne] Re: "Running in 640K"

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Udo Kuhnt said:
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>> ...why anyone would try to run something in 640k when most likely they
>> have dozens if not hundreds of megs of RAM available.
>
> Sigh. I wish somebody would tell these people that those 640K are no
> longer a limitation of DOS but rather of the software written for it.
>


Udo,

That's exactly my point. Arachne is written for 640k. Why is it still
that way? I know you started a DPMI port. But it's still described as
"alpha". If you guys can work out the bugs it would make current efforts
to reduce Arachne's memory footprint obsolete for the most part.

> DOS programs can use more than 640K for at least 20 years now, but it
> seems it is much easier to change DOS than the opinion of those people
> on it.
>
>> Arachne needs to directly address at least yesterday's hardware and not
>> worry about hardware that was obsolete fifteen years ago.
>
> That is exactly why I started the DPMI port. Perhaps it is time to take
> it out of the mothballs again.


It is long past time. Why did the DPMI port ever get mothballed to
begin with? Maybe there's something I don't understand.

Sam Ewalt
>

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