Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/05/25/04:08:08
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Paul Richards wrote:
> Well it works, but only up to 64Meg. I wanna be able to use several
> hundred at least... :)
You probably can't; complain to Microsoft. Section 3.10 in the DJGPP
FAQ list (v2/faq211b.zip from the same place you get DJGPP) explains
how to get more than 64MB of DPMI memory on Windows, but I think this
only works if you have more than 64MB physically installed.
If you find a way to enable more than 64MB on your machine, please let
me know and I will revise the FAQ as needed.
> After all 32bit addresses can have up to 4Gb...
Microsoft software is not about giving you the freedom to use whatever
the 32-bit address space allows. Microsoft is about *restricting* you
to whatever ridiculous limits they decided to impose on you, in this
case because evidently there's not much love lost between Microsoft
and users of DOS programs.
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