On 1/12/2018 2:15 PM, Ercan Ersoy wrote:
Hello,
I'm Ercan Ersoy (creator of DOS Coreutils and FreeDOS TUI Shell) and
this e-mail address that I use general purpose.
I have an idea.
FreeDOS is a operating system that has some advantages. But, FreeDOS
only runs PC platform. I think, FreeDOS can be ported other hardware
such like Arduino.
Arduino is a microcontroller development platform and it is a
microcontroller. Arduino has some models. People usually use Arduino
Uno and Arduino Mega2560. Also, Arduino is a open source. Arduino
models uses AVR microcontroller or ARM microcontroller.
I use orginal Arduino Uno, Arduino Uno clone and Arduino Mega2560
clone. These are good platforms.
As we all know FreeDOS is written C language. FreeDOS can be ported 8
bit AVR microcontrollers and 32 bit ARM microcontrollers.
For BIOS interrupts, we can write BIOS like bootloader for FreeDOS
Thanks for interesting,
Sorry, but this is a non-starter. Beside that the 8-RISC processor has
absolutely nothing in common with the x86 CPUs that DOS is based on.
Those ATMega chips are "micro-controllers", not
"micro-processors/computers".
And a basic Arduino Uno has a whooping 2KB of RAM, not much you can do
even with DOS on that one, and no, a Mega2560 has only 8KB of RAM, not
much more to work with either. And by default no keyboard or screen,
which is another show-stopper...
The Arduino 101 has beside a a 32bit ARC RISC processor (for the IO
stuff) an x86 Quark/Curie based processor, but again, with 24KB of RAM,
you still won't go anywhere fast...
Ralf
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