fu> another neat thing is each ntvdm gets it's own "640k" of ram, it's own
fu> EMS/XMS, etc.. it's really the scaffolding of the single-pc multinode
fu> bbs.
Wow, I had no idea. That's pretty neat. Honestly, I use Windows 7 32 bit for my
doorgame host and it works astonishingly well. No slowdowns or any other apparen
t issues. Only some games like Yankee Trader don't work; everything else seems t
o hum along as expected.
fu> it's neat stuff. bit of a shame the 16bit mode is not accessable from
fu> 64bit oses.. but we're lucky it works in 32bit mode. in theory it should
fu> be faster than the ntvdm64 one, but with modern cpus i don't know if you
fu> could measure that difference anymore
Yeah, agree. I understand the reasons to delete legacy code but it does really p
ut a thorn in my side, hehe.
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