Also,perhaps we should allow our new OS to "see" more RAM and memory.FreeDOS/DOS only "sees" a specific amount of RAM.I could have 5GB of RAM,and it will only read 1MB,and so on with the computer cores.
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 6:21 PM, JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU < jcharbonnea...@cpsge.org> wrote: > First thing I noticed (This may be just me.),is that we need more memory > for the OS environment.Normally,when I boot FreeDOS on ANY computer (Be it > modern or old),the memory is always 601 MB free.More memory would be needed > for a bigger file system and multi-tasking. > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > >> >> Hi Mercury, >> >> so you want to run a NAS or home automation on DOS? >> >> For NAS, you need a multitasking OS, not DOS. For >> home automation, which limitation of FAT would be >> a problem? Same for other light embedded devices. >> >> Flash does not give good performance for FAT, but >> embedded devices would have been free to use one >> of many available Linux filesystems. But did not. >> >> Of course the question can be extended: What if an >> existing nicer-than-FAT filesystem is used more in >> DOS? Have a look at what already EXISTS for Linux, >> then have a look at the source code to check which >> filesystems are 1. simple enough to make a "light" >> DOS driver possible (some might even be so simple >> that booting DOS from them is feasible, but only a >> really popular filesystem may get kernel drivers), >> 2. better than FAT in some way (e.g. more speed on >> flash storage, better space allocation or LFN in a >> less insane way than VFAT) but 3. not putting lots >> of code into features which mean nothing for DOS, >> such as ACL based file permissions or extreme file >> or disk size support beyond existing FAT32 API or >> "network redirector" API expressible number range. >> >> Looking forward to your review of existing FS-es! >> >> Of course with an outlook towards which properties >> a not-yet-existing FS could have to be even nicer >> for use within a DOS based storage "ecosystem". >> >> Cheers, Eric >> >> PS: By "light", I mean a driver which is not 100s >> of kilobytes in size and which can be fast with a >> bit of DOS RAM and XMS instead of needing 500 MB >> of DPMI RAM and protected mode implementation :-) >> >> >> >> > NAS devices, home automation computers and other similar devices are >> > becoming increasingly common, and offering a filesystem finally capable >> > of handling the sizes of modern hard drives could be a welcome >> > improvement for them, and just may help get FreeDOS used in a wider >> market. >> > >> > How do we know this isn't a chicken-and-egg problem? Maybe all the >> > devices only use the proprietary exFAT because there was no open >> > alternative. Maybe, had there been one available, we would all... >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-devel mailing list >> Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >> > >
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