On 11/27/2020 12:22 PM, zz zz wrote:
hi
> DOS memory manager historically limit the amount of RAM via EMM/EMS
to 32 or 64MB of RAM. That ought to be enough for anyone really
interested in programming for DOS.
interesting, that'd be my main interest: the more usable RAM the more
*any* program could do, specially a server.
Well, the problem with that line of thinking is that DOS is a
single-user, single tasking OS, NOT a server. And not only that makes a
server use for DOS rather useless, you need to consider that DOS also by
itself does not contain any networking. Any ways to turn DOS into a
server would result rather into something live Novell Netware, which
would be nice to have a clone of these days, but the only effort to
create something like this was abandoned more than a decade ago.
(OpenNetware-MANOS)
Have there been efforts in extending that, without turning into
"dosix"? certainly no multi-user for me :-) couldn't a "virtual
address table" handle some more? idk.. there's a memory manager option
at FreeDOS boot -- and on a parallel thread there seems to be some
interest in improving some of that -- could this perhaps be an
installable package with another option for memory management? Are you
aware of any similar projects with that specific use case in mind? (it
could instruct said improvement, if nothing more)
Is there really a need for something like this? I am always curious when
I see people like you aiming high up in the sky, but nobody is able or
even willing to contribute on some lower hanging fruits...
Also, glad to hear there is no interest in (even) more languages.
Seriously, what programming languages that don't already exist in some
form or another for actual programing in DOS would be there? Sorry, as
mentioned before, I just don't see JavaScript as a viable option, nor
any of the other languages that came out after DOS officially died. And
personally, I don't see a need for this either. I would much rather see
some efforts in reviving some true DOS versions of programming
languages, in a open source form. That also run on DOS, not require
cross compiling on a multi-GB graphical OS.
Ralf
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