Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 08:31:07 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT darkside DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Advantages of DJGPP 2.x?


On Sun, 1 Oct 1995, Erik Max Francis wrote:

> I do have a question about DJGPP 2.x, though.  I understand that the 
> new version is supposed to make things more "plug-and-play," 
> particularly with regard to memory drivers and such, but I'm not an 
> expert on high memory access under MSDOS and would appreciate it if 
> someone could give me a brief overview of the situation and how DJGPP 
> makes things better.  Any takers?

The differences between DJGPP 1.x and 2.0 are explained in the DJGPP FAQ 
list (available as faq102.zip from the same place you get DJGPP), in 
Chapter 21.  AFAIK, they have nothing to do with memory drivers, 
plug-and-play, high memory access, etc.  About the only thing which comes 
close to those is the fact that you can run nested DJGPP programs (e.g. 
recursive Make's) which was very hard in 1.x.  Read the FAQ for more 
details.