Re:Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable ver...
by nunobrito on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @05:12AM
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Performance was truly a major factor for that, even today.
Even if Windows 98 would be installed on the machine, running the software on plain MS-DOS would be drastically faster on those days when having less services/GUI on the background.
They would access the extended memory using the HIMEM.SYS driver and the run the software as bare-metal as possible. Not very different from what happens with linux servers nowadays.
Even if Windows 98 would be installed on the machine, running the software on plain MS-DOS would be drastically faster on those days when having less services/GUI on the background.
They would access the extended memory using the HIMEM.SYS driver and the run the software as bare-metal as possible. Not very different from what happens with linux servers nowadays.