Expanded/Extended memory use in MSC 5.1

Bob Stout Bob.Stout at p6.f506.n106.z1.fidonet.org
Thu Jan 18 22:54:07 AEST 1990


In an article of <16 Jan 90 17:27:08 GMT>, kaleb at mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) writes:

 >>   4) WHEN IS SOMEONE GONNA MAKE IT EASY TO USE EXPANDED AND EXTENDED 
 >>      MEMORY IN NORMAL MSC C LANGUAGE? (no violins please).
 >   
 >I have said this before, and while I'm not in any way endorsing them or 
 >their products, Microsofts' MS-DOS encyclopedia is one of the best 
 >resources around for DOS programming.  There are articles in there 
 >complete with code, that explain the care and feeding of ext/exp memory.

  Zortech C/C++ 2.0 includes functions for directly working with extended  
and/or expanded memory. It also includes a new pointer type, supported at the  
compiler level, for handling almost any type of memory, including disk-based  
virtual memory. Note that the current release only supports extended and  
expanded memory, but the way it's written, full virtual memory support can't  
be too far off. Then, there's OS/2... 



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