Hi Craig,
Craig Hart wrote to Jan Wagemakers :
 JW>> When you have loaded M$ Himem.sys (without emm386) your computer is
 JW>> in "Big Real Mode". I don't say that Himem.sys makes use of Big Real
 JW>> to provide XMS-memory, because when you have also loaded emm386 to
 JW>> emulate EMS, this Big Real Mode is gone.
 CH> I _dont_ think so.
Is possible. But what I know for sure is that Himem.sys do some strange
things.
Because the following has worked with only MSDOS Himem.sys loaded.
/*
        mov     ax,0                    ;Segments ? What are segments ???
        mov     ds,ax                   ;DS = 0 !!! LET'S USE FLAT MEMORY !!!
        mov     word ptr [ds:0b8142h],8403h
                        ; ^^^^^^^^^^ FLAT MEMORY ABSOLUTE ADDRESS OF TEXTMEM!
*/
Now, I have *not* done a lot of experiments with this stuff, so it is
possible that I was wrong with saying that with Himem.sys loaded your CPU
is in Big-Real mode.....
But the above example shows why there is so much confusion about Himem.sys
and Big Real mode.
 CH> Try this some time:
The problem is that I have erased MSDOS from my computer ;-)
 CH> Craig
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