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HimemSX, another HimemX variant (Announce)

posted by Zyzzle, 24.10.2020, 01:52

> > I'm still perplexed as to the vast disparity in XMS below / above 4GB
> > barrier!
>
> I guess your machine has 4 GB true RAM only, and anything above 4 GB is
> emulated by SMM code, backuped by hard disk space. :-D

:-) It is indeed strange, as memory > 4GB access in Win10 and Linux is at normal fast speed... At moment, I only have this laptop with > 4GB RAM. I'm going to configure one of my other systems with 8 GB, just for the purposes of seeing if HIMEMSX runs as slowly on them, also... I'll report back of course.

BTW: a very good use for long-unsigned filesizes in true DOS would be to play 2 to 4 GB .VOB files with Khusraw's wonderful DJGPP MPLAYER DOS port. That's what I used to do in Win98's DOS API (and how I know that it supports long unsigned filesizes), and it would play these files in Win98 with the DOS port, but not in true DOS.

 

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