#Playing with Big Boys
28-Oct-93 18:41:26
Sb: #63984-#Playing with Big Boys
Fm: Gus Grubba 70673,1605
To: Mark Huppertz 71022,3565
PMJI but… 3D studio _is_ a 32 bit application and in no way is
restricted to 64k pages. It has access to over 4G of memory using
plain ol'32 bit offsets. It runs under what is called "PharLap DOS
Extender" which allows a program to take full use of the 386/486/586
environment. It has direct access to all hardware and, because of
that, it's light years faster than if it was ported to some high
overhead OS such as OS/2 or Windows. The only thing that would make
3DS faster is porting to an environment running either a different
CPU (RISC, what have you) or some environment able to run multiple
486/586's.