On 10/26/2015 6:46 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! > >> Actually, since the boot disk loads uses floppy caching, the FDI runs >> reasonably well. As a user, you would not even notice any performance > As said, floppy target audience includes more 16-bit people compared to > the almost 100% cd/dvd target audience. So you should be able to safely > skip caching (which needs 32 bit) when the floppy boots on 16 bit pc... > ...
Agreed. Besides, how fancy would a pre-CD machine owner expect the install process to be? One running a 16-bit chip, I'm sure, does not expect the highest level of performance to begin with so I expect a manual install process wouldn't be that big a deal - folks running hardware of that vintage aren't exactly noobs. > ... > > PS Jayden: > ... > Let people with before-CD computers do > the installs manually. Give the rest a switchable-to-fancy installer. > > ... Agreed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
