"Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I haven't used it all that much yet, but have had a few crashes
>> (heap corrupt) requiring a cold reboot. From previous experience
>> with FreeDOS, I would not recommend giving it access to a large
>> (>500mg) hardrive.
>
> You mean FreeDOS hasn't solved the problem of big hard drives yet?
> I remember FreeDOS had problems with big hard drives back in 1999
> or 1998. I assume you mean >500 MB, that you confused milligrams
> with megabytes.
That goes without saying. Of course I meant "meg".
> I also remember a divide-by-zero error trying to access the B drive
> (5.25" 1.2 MB) from FreeDOS, didn't really want to install FreeDOS
> for fear of trashing other OSes on the hard disk. FreeDOS people
> don't realize how big current hard drives are?
I'm sure they do. But, apparently, writing a DOS kernel from scratch,
is easier said than done.
Howard E.
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