On Thu, 28 May 2015, Antony Gordon wrote:
Here’s one possibility:1. Start FreeDOS (16-bit mode) 2. Start FreeDOS-32 via a separate executable (it would only be installed if it detected a 32-bit capable processor), perhaps call it FD32. It would switch to protected mode and spawn a protected mode shell. The other possibility During the install, determine if the computer can support 32-bit instruction set If so, install FreeDOS and install the FreeDOS 32-bit components (provide an option to only run the 16-bit OS) FreeDOS 32 starts automatically by running the initial 16-bit environment, then spawning the 32-bit environment to take over. All existing drivers developed for FD16 would work. If we use the Windows SDK to clean build the 32-bit environment, then perhaps we can use Win9x drivers (if they are even still available). Otherwise, we’d have to clean room Win NT to implement a 32-bit OS and ReactOS is still in alpha...
Now THAT is starting to sound like an idea. -uso.
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