I have upgraded my version of DF so that it works on freedos and I think
win9x/me properly. IF the DOS FAT32 API is available, it uses it, otherwise it
does a fallback to plain BIOS calls which have the 2GiB/4GiB limit.
unfortunately, freedos doesn't support anything over 8GB and long filenames
aren't quite native yet. I would really like to burn some bootable utility DOS
cdroms using something like ripcord that
- work on x64 and maybe i386, even if support for BIOS should go away and only
UEFI and x64 remains
- support all the memory in the system
- have a compiler I can use which can handle this (!), preferably a commercial
compiler which I can make commercial products from, and has more c++ language
features/capabilities than openwatcom (I want string, std c++ library, TR2,
C99). for the freedos folk, perhaps someone at mingw-w64 sf.net project can be
persuaded to help make a gnu compiler targeting freedos and hosted on either
linux or mac or win32/win64? rubenvb maybe? compiler should be hosted on
windows 64-bit, meaning it should run on windows 64-bit and compile apps for
the new freedos. maybe that means apps for the new freedos should be 64-bit?
- I would like to see a windows-nt/7/xp-ized kind of long filenames for the
filesystem. it can fall back to 8.3, it works with floppies,I think it's the
numeric tails system with NT, but I could be wrong. windows 9x/me not quite
compatible with this I think (except for cd's which are fine).
- support exFAT/fat64 OR support FAT32 to 32GiB (due to age-old microsoft
bugs/limitations which still exist, the filesystem can handle 8TB).
- support for 4k or larger sectors, meaning the sector size is not hard-coded
(did we already get that? I have been out of the loop)
- support for UEFI+GPT partitions. disk sizes can get really big which is nice
(please, no small-minded limits). if you wanted ALL of freedos and wanted to
expand everything, it adds up fast. I suppose you could even use it for a POS
system if you could stuff the OS on a 32GB CF card.
- something that's burnable onto a cd/dvd/blu-ray(?) disc with no problems,
with long filenames (i.e. joliet cdrom filesystem or UDF).
I guess something like that is really a package deal...
I develop apps for freedos and things are on hold right now because I am
waiting to see if djgpp will run in 64-bit cmd shell yet (x64 has no
command.com so having a working compiler is critical for me on my windows box),
but these are the kinds of things I would like to see in an OS.
-------------
Jim Michaels
jmich...@yahoo.com
j...@renewalcomputerservices.com
http://RenewalComputerServices.com
http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software)
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IEC Units: Computer RAM & SSD measurements, microsoft disk size measurements
(note: they will say GB or MB or KB or TB when it is IEC Units!):
[KiB] [MiB] [GiB] [TiB]
[2^10B=1,024^1B=1KiB]
[2^20B=1,024^2B=1,048,576B=1MiB]
[2^30B=1,024^3B=1,073,741,824B=1GiB]
[2^40B=1,024^4B=1,099,511,627,776B=1TiB]
[2^50B=1,024^5B=1,125,899,906,842,624B=1PiB]
SI Units: Hard disk industry disk size measurements:
[KB] [MB] [GB] [TB]
[10^3B=1,000B=1KB]
[10^6B=1,000,000B=1MB]
[10^9B=1,000,000,000B=1GB]
[10^12B=1,000,000,000,000B=1TB]
[10^15B=1,000,000,000,000,000B=1PB]
>________________________________
> From: Ralf A. Quint <free...@gmx.net>
>To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers.
><freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 2:22 PM
>Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS limits! and FDNPKG v0.93a released
>
>
>At 02:12 PM 2/20/2013, sparky4 wrote:
>>FreeDOS's mem program output only 4 GB of detected memory out of the
>>machine's total 16 GB .... Dose this mean FreeDOS can only detect 4GB
>>maximum?
>
>You are kidding, right?
>
>
>>Also The df program is outdated and reporting incorrect sizes... it only
>>detects a maximum of 2 GB disk space of a hard drive. I may just have an
>>outdated version... or it must be the latest DOS version... i need to
>>check
>
>You surely like to play the jester, don't you?
>
>Ralf X;{
>
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