Hi,
On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 6:42 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
<freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> I wrote a "how-to" article about FreeDOS on the Pocket386 for
> Both.org, but I also copied/pasted this into a wiki article on the
> FreeDOS wiki:
>
> Now that I've reinstalled the Pocket386, my next step is to test every
> application and game from FreeDOS T2406. If you're curious how an app
> performs on FreeDOS on real hardware ('386-SX at 40 MHz, 8MB memory)
> I'll share notes in a follow-up thread.
Definitely interesting!
Since I don't have working legacy hardware anymore, I've done some
light, informal benchmarking of various tools under DOSBox-X (a "fast
486") in FreeDOS. It's definitely eye-opening (compared to my
semi-modern 2010 laptop). So things which seem instantaneous natively
run much slower when emulated. (This is actually good and lets me
optimize my code and compare compilers.)
> So far, I can report that FED is a bit slow to start up (just when I
> thought it had hung, it came up) but runs fine after that.
Is it UPX'd? LZMA compression is horribly slow on legacy cpus, that's
why it's disabled for 16-bit .EXEs by default. (Yes, I know this is a
32-bit DJGPP build.) If so, try unpacking and repacking with "--best"
instead.
A while back I tried running Linux under the web browser in a
Javascript-based emulator. It had GNU Emacs on there. Emacs took at
least a minute to boot up, but at least the syntax highlighting looked
pretty!
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