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 > -- > FreeDOS is present on the USENET, too! alt.os.free-dos > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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