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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:51:35 GMT
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Martin Stromberg wrote:
> 
> Tom St Denis (tom AT dasoft DOT org) wrote:
> : It's a really stable dos extender two main features over CWSDPMI
> 
> : 1)  Compressed executables
> : 2)  It binds directly into your program, so no 'two exe' distributions
> 
> : The cons:
> 
> : 1)  No virtual memory
> : 2)  If you actually distribute more then one exe CWSDPMI takes less
> : space.
> 
> Why is it that if the extender can be bound to the executable, it
> doesn't support virtual memory (like PMODE/DJ and WDOSX) while those
> which can't be bound does support virtual memory (like CWSDPMI)?
> 
> Genesis, Wind and Wuthering,
> 
>                                                         MartinS

Pure coincident I suppose.  Of course when you have 128mb available for
it, who cares about vmem?

Tom
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