On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Joris van Rantwijk wrote: > On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 11:48:35AM +0000, Imre Leber wrote: >> After having an extensive private chat with Eric. I was wondering >> what the overall interest of the project would be to move the FreeDOS >> utilities to a DJGPP based platform. > > Does this imply that FreeDOS would become a 32-bit OS and that > the utilities would no longer work on a real (16-bit) IBM PC? > > Since such plans have come up several times lately, I would like > to emphasize the following thing: > > For me, a FreeDOS that does not properly run on a real PC is utterly > useless. In fact I think it would be ridiculous to make a 386-only > system and calling it XxxDOS, since all versions of "the real DOS" > do run on original PC hardware. > > Sometimes these concerns are waved away with the argument that pre-386 > systems are not used anymore except by hobbyists. My reply to that is > that FreeDOS itself is not used by anybody except hobbyists. Kicking > out everybody with old hardware and emulators sounds like a bad move. > > Joris.
DR-DOS still works on an 8086. ROM-DOS works on an 80186 (but not an 8086). I think even RxDOS will run on an 8086, but its compatibility leaves much to be desired. If FreeDOS were to go 386-only... then someone might fork it to keep it 8086-compatible. -uso. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
