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#1
Quote from: rudi on 2008.12.22, 10:34:29
Hi Scott !

Quote from: scottegos2 on 2008.12.21, 23:13:21
except maybe minor tweaks to USB drivers

Really ?  If you know someone looking at that stuff: Here's a  nice one from the
10.162 build of USBEHDC.SYS. I was forced to apply a binary patch (additional
NULL pointer check in AddTDToQH()) in order to get these DVB-T adapters to
work reliably...
I just saw your post and happened to be chatting with someone who's still at least partially involved with OS/2. He said that even that driver work is gone.
#2
Quote from: RobertM on 2008.12.15, 07:56:02
What about PAE (in the future)? (j/k)[....]
There is no OS/2 development going on in IBM AFAIK (except maybe minor tweaks to USB drivers or something). That is unlikely ever to change. Even less likely is the unbelievably huge effort it would take to make OS/2 work with more than 4gb of address space.  That address space limit is per system (i.e. no matter how many processors are running). I have no idea why your Netfiinity reporting seems to be off. Probably an OS/2 bug.
#3
Quote from: RobertM on 2008.11.08, 01:05:24
The kernel itself could address 64 terabytes of virtual memory...

Not in this universe. OS/2's kernel is limited to 4gb total address space.There are assumptions everywhere that sizeof(int)==sizeof(long)==sizeof(void *).  Also, 3gb or so  is as much as EVER gets mapped to userspace, too (2gb being the default for most kernel versions). Anyone who thinks that OS/2 will now or ever have 64 bit addressing has clearly got access to some quality dope.   

As far as the more sensible question about what happens on systems with 4gb or more of real RAM and also devices, that has more to do with how the BIOS ends up mapping those address spaces into the 32 bit world. Again, OS/2 can't handle any PAE.  If you need more than 4gb of address space (or more modern hardware support), get a more modern OS like Linux. Sad, but true.