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Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 14:31:48 +0200
From: Diego Zuccato <dz AT bo DOT dada DOT it>
Organization: CyberSpace Software Labs BBS
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: fread slowstart
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Do we have any real reason for this?  It makes less DOS memory
> available for subprocesses, which means less nested programs.  I
Well, couldn't we have a 'locked' memory out the first MB and use it for
all DJGPP programs that need a lot of arguments ?
In DOS memory there should be at most a single pointer
(descriptor:offset) to the memory that programs have to use.
So the tb remains only a bucket where we pass stuff that MUST be in the
first MB and where we get the results. So a single tb (or at least one
for each process running, if/when mtasking implemented) should be
enough.

Well, I'm really non a so low-level programmer, but I can't see why
shouldn't it work. If I remember well it's nearly what Win31 does...

BYtE,
 Diego.