The tool uses DJGPP stub, so I highly doubt it will run under a 16 bit real
mode CPU.

El dom., 23 sept. 2018 a las 16:43, Mateusz Viste (<mate...@nospam.viste.fr>)
escribió:

> On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 12:05:19 +0200, Olivier de Lannoy (free) wrote:
> > 2) About memory capacity, testing for FreeDos was realized with this
> > setup:
> > LapTop, Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU @ 2.30GHz with 8GB Memory I suggest 2GB
> > Memory at least (for BMP image size < 2Mo) but no problem for 16bits
> > running application.
>
> I'm sorry, but this doesn't make sense. Suggesting 2 GiB of RAM for a 16-
> bit application is like suggesting to fit Pirelli tires on a Yugo.
>
> A real-mode (16 bit) application can address no more than 1 MiB of RAM.
> Part of which is already occupied by the BIOS (384K), the DOS kernel (ca.
> 50K) and the command interpreter (ca. 50K, unless it knows how to swap).
> Realistically, real mode applications can access around 500-600 KiB of
> RAM in most setups. This is why I was wondering whether this results in
> some limitations in the software itself. But given your answer I assume
> it is simply not a 16-bit application.
>
> Mateusz
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