On Fri, 30 Dec 2016, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 12/30/2016 6:57 AM, Steve Nickolas wrote: >> *I* did it, but that was many years ago. I do remember the VDM didn't >> work. > What I remember (granted, getting old LOL) was that someone had 3.0 > starting but then couldn't do much beyond that. Not aware that anyone > every got it working (beyond a mere bootup) on 3.1 or Enhancded mode due > to memory manager issues.
As far as memory management goes, Windows comes with its own himem.sys and emm386.exe, which should probably be used in lieu of their FreeDOS counterparts. >> Actually, IBM had 3 releases of version 5 (5.0, 5.00.1, 5.02) and the >> first two were essentially identical to Microsoft's 5.0 and 5.0A. > Well, yes, but those were as you stated just OEM versions from M$, with > no IBM specifics beyond what any other OEM had, unlike the later > versions of PC-DOS. Can't see in PC-DOS 5.02 anything different but the > renamed IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM either... The two had been essentially identical since 3.2, though, after MS-DOS was made more IBM-like in a late revision of 3.1. (3.3 and 4.0 were apparently developed by IBM rather than Microsoft; this is certainly evident on 4.0.) 5.02 actually has one difference from MS-DOS: interlnk, which was introduced to MS-DOS 6, was present here as well (along with a couple of the tools, like eject, which didn't show up in MS-DOS at all). -uso. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
