On 8/2/2023 1:30 PM, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel wrote:
My stuff for FreeDOS requires only an 8086. The exception being LOGGER which can run on an 8086. But, I have that functionality turned off at present. The CD and USB install media need a 386 do to the reliance on grep during installation. Which I feel is fine. Because USB is not present on 386 or less. Also, the CD drivers available to us require a 386+. Eventually, I will add the functionality that is provided by grep into V8Power tools. However, because the drivers still need a 386+, those media will still need one to use them directly.
Why would grep require a 386 CPU? Yeah, USB and CD/DVD makes only sense for a 386+, but a version of grep should work just fine on an 8086. I am pretty sure that Borland's version that came with the various Turbo compilers did, and there should be source versions out there that can be compiled for 8086 just fine...
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