On Wed, 21 Oct 2015, Mateusz Viste wrote: > As Eric said in parallel - this won't solve in any ultimate way the 8086 > "problem", since most 8086 are unlikely to have a CD. But again, my > (very personal) opinion is that doing a full blown > packager/installer/distro for such machines is overkill. Just boot from > a floppy, sys the disk, copy files and that's it. That's actually the > reason I created the svarog86 "distribution" a few months ago, so I > could enjoy FreeDOS on my own 8086 (which I reverted back to IBM DOS 3.3 > later because FreeDOS ended up being too much of a memory hog to be > useful on such machine, but that's another story).
I tend to agree that PC DOS/MS-DOS is still more useful on old metal. My 5160 currently runs (when it runs; it's packed away right now) PC DOS 7. I've actually considered the idea of trying to come up with a DOS kernel which is optimized for memory footprint, but I don't know enough about OS design, or programming to the metal, to go through with it. I very rarely find myself needing a tool which is not present in MS-DOS 3.3, apart from "move", "deltree" or the editor. -uso. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
