AVB> kernel size is limited by 126k I don't consider that a limitation (currently ~45-65K and not increasing)
The uncompressed kernel I sent to Bart these days was 74 KB (Borland build). 126 KB would mean 2 almost full text segments, which may be possible for MS-DOS but plainly impossible for us in the foreseeable future. So, to periphrase Master Bill, "126 KB should be enough for everyone" ;-) On the other hand, what is the minimum memory supported by the kernel? Will it work with only 128 KB of RAM? I doubt! Yes, the first PC's in 1981 had only 128 KB of RAM, but I think that the real minimum for FreeDOS is more, perhaps 192 or 256 KB. For Datalight's ROM-DOS it's 128 KB as far as I remember but it can run its code from ROM unlike FreeDOS (the ROMDSK package runs it from RAM).
Lucho
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