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- From: billp@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Bill Parquet)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Anyone have a suggestion for a good 286 DOS Extender?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.182759.9599@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 23:27:58 GMT
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- gchunt@rio.dixie.edu (Galen C. Hunt) writes:
- : The software project that I'm currently working on needs to run on 286 machines,
- : but I would like to use a DOS extender because my program is extremely cramped
- : in 640K. I would appreciate any helpful hints, suggestions or opinions from
- : anyone using a 286 DOS extender. Important questions I have are the following:
- : 1) How much does it cost?
- : 2) Is there are runtime royalty?
- : 3) Will it work with Microsoft C (either 6.0 or 7.0)?
- : 4) Will it work with CodeView?
- : 5) Does it support automatic paging or swapping to disk?
- : Thanks for you time!
-
- I got a free copy of pharlap 286 lite with I upgraded to borland c++ 3.1.
- I'm not sure how much it costs if it was bought separately (or even if they
- do [it may be just something they threw together to get people to buy
- the big $500 full SDK]) It does work with bcpp 3.1 and turbo debugger.
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- I'm not sure if there are any 286 extenders out there that support paging
- on the 286. Although the hardware supports it, its pretty hairy (it has
- to take place using variable sized segments instead of fixed size pages
- on the 386)
-