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1...This may present an opportunity for Gary and Morris to
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Medit Improvements Windows C Version Increase Memory SDS Program Com
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0704 - Summary/Objective
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070501 - Follow up ref SDS 6 0000, ref SDS 5 0000.
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0708 - Progress
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070901 - Gary has expressed further interest in SDS development. Morris may
070902 - now have more time available to support product development. This
070903 - follows up inquiry on 070429 by Jerry asking about SDS progress.
070904 - ref SDS 6 YW5L
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070907 - Discussions the past few days led to tasks for preparing specification
070908 - and product description of requirements for a Windows version of SDS.
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070911 - Yesterday, on 070711 Gary considered upgrading SDS foundational
070912 - documents to use Microsoft Word formatting, and also improving HTML.
070913 - ref SDS 8 MM5K
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070916 - Today, he listed planning steps in his SDS records for upgrading
070917 - Morris' Medit code to run SDS with more memory. ref SDS 9 FR6N
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070920 - There is a case study on 040505 on considerations for creating a
070921 - Windows version of SDS. ref SDS 4 QU61
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070924 - Several records stand out...
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070926 - 1. SDS modules and processes are prescribed and diagramed on
070927 - the Internet. ref SDS 1 EV7M
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070930 - 2. Morris has created a C version of Medit with 16 MB capacity.
070931 - ref SDS 4 0U4N
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070934 - The record on 901226 reports this program requires about 80
070935 - hours to develop macro language for running SDS and continuing
070936 - development. ref SDS 2 0001 Since that time, Morris has added
070937 - more commands, this might now take 4 weeks, or even several
070938 - months to become fully operational running SDS.
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070941 - Experimentation at that time showed we can process multiple
070942 - files over 1 MB. ref SDS 2 7O8O May have loaded 6 - 8 MB.
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070945 - A few days ago, talked to Morris for several hours about
070946 - continuing this work. He seemed to indicate that Windows XP
070947 - provides only 1 MB of RAM for programs. We did a test using
070948 - the DOS mem command with a /c param.
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070951 - C>mem /c [Enter]
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070954 - Conventional Memory :
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070956 - Name Size in Decimal Size in Hex
070957 - ------------- --------------------- -------------
070958 - MSDOS 12752 ( 12.5K) 31D0
070959 - KBD 3296 ( 3.2K) CE0
070960 - HIMEM 1248 ( 1.2K) 4E0
070961 - COMMAND 3776 ( 3.7K) EC0
070962 - FREE 112 ( 0.1K) 70
070963 - FREE 634000 (619.1K) 9AC90
070965 - ..
070966 - Total FREE : 634112 (619.3K)
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070969 - Upper Memory :
070970 -
070971 - Name Size in Decimal Size in Hex
070972 - ------------- --------------------- -------------
070973 - SYSTEM 180208 (176.0K) 2BFF0
070974 - MOUSE 12528 ( 12.2K) 30F0
070975 - MSCDEXNT 464 ( 0.5K) 1D0
070976 - REDIR 2672 ( 2.6K) A70
070977 - DOSX 34848 ( 34.0K) 8820
070978 - FREE 960 ( 0.9K) 3C0
070979 - FREE 95856 ( 93.6K) 17670
070981 - ..
070982 - Total FREE : 96816 ( 94.5K)
070984 - ..
070985 - Total bytes available to programs (Conventional+Upper) : 730928 (713.8K)
070986 - Largest executable program size : 632976 (618.1K)
070987 - Largest available upper memory block : 95856 ( 93.6K)
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070989 - 1048576 bytes total contiguous extended memory
070990 - 0 bytes available contiguous extended memory
070991 - 941056 bytes available XMS memory
070992 - MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area
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070996 - Morris noted DOS reports the largest executable program size is
070997 - only 633K, and that the operating system allocates only 1 MB
070998 - for DOS applications. He seemed to suggest that this shows the
070999 - Medit C version programed to support 16 MB can only open 1 MB
071000 - in the NTVD version of DOS that runs under Windows XP. He
071001 - therefore feels there is no advantage to performing the 80 -
071002 - 160 hours work to make this version oprational for SDS.
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071005 - After the call, experimentation shows the Medit C version,
071006 - medx.exe, still opens multiple files over 1 MB. Created
071007 - several files of 3 - 4 MB using the get command all loaded into
071008 - memory at the same time, so total size may have been 8 - 12 MB.
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071011 - If the Medx.exe could be updated this would allow development
071012 - to continue while efforts are evaluated and taken up on a
071013 - Windows version of SDS, as Gary notes in his record today on
071014 - 070712. ref SDS 9 FR6N
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071017 - 3. Marketing plan and product development for SDS Windows version,
071018 - including outline scope, specifications and requirements was
071019 - prepared by Morris in a Microsoft Word document, reported on
071020 - 950221. ref SDS 3 JC7O
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071023 - Morris' outline lists capabilities in POIMS to present product
071024 - rationale, which have been problematic for him, ref SDS 3 MT9F
071025 - Communication Metrics in the outline has been a major source of
071026 - contention and challenge. ref SDS 3 G97I
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071029 - Morris' Microsoft Word file for the outline is rendered in HTML
071030 - to facilitate communications and management. ref SDS 3 GO6M
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071033 - This may present an opportunity for Gary and Morris to
071034 - collaborate on refining this work, and leading to actual
071035 - production, based on Gary's record today, citied above.
071036 - ref SDS 0 MB70
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