Date:	Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:26:26 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: question about DJGPP
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On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 johnny_chan AT phoenix DOT com wrote:

> I am planning to develop a HW test software. The best OS choice to
> me is DOS because I can have full control on the HW side. Since all
> the machines thesedays are in 32bits. My software have to be able to
> run on 32b protected mode (just like NT or UNIX but without
> multi-thread and VM) Huge physical memory (2-4GB) will be required
> during stress test.

DJGPP should support this.  Currently, it only supports 256MB of
physical memory, the next version of CWSDPMI should support 2GB at
least.

There's one other requirement: there must be a disk or its close
clone, because otherwise I think you will have all kinds of weird
problems.

> I need fast and straighforward 4GB memory access but with no Virtual
> memory

This presumably means that you have 4GB of memory installed
physically??  Otherwise, how do you access 4GB with no VM?

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