From:	"Michael N. Filippov" <michael AT idisys DOT iae DOT nsk DOT su>
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Subject:	Re: Memory amount and PMODE
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Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> wrote:
>> It looks like PMODE indeed doesn't support more than 64MB.

> I was able to take a look at PMODE's raw and XMS code, and
> verified it does not support more than 64Mb total memory in
> either case.  I was able to upgrade the raw mode code 
> fairly easily (and was able to repeatedly access almost 1Gb
> of memory under the updated PMODETSR code).  I'll dump this
> into the next alpha-test build.

> The Extended XMS code is more of a mess because of the way 
> PMODE is coded.  I will probably be able to fix this also
> before the next release of PMODE.

Why not to bury it (isnt it easy to support only one program :)?
because of size ? If so wouldnt it be simpler
just to have possibility to compile CWSDSTUB w/out page file support 
(closed with #defines). 

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