Howdy, > Hi, > http://fdos.org/kernel/ > makes people use 8086 FreeCOM if I understand the text right. > This means they will likely have no XMS swap and no LOADHIGH. > In short, they will think FreeCOM is really a BAD command.com
I find the site a bit confusing. It says "The UNSTABLE (aka development) branch is what I refer to as the development kernel (kernels with w suffix)." It looks like those kernels actually have ".dev" or ".dbgdev" in them, right? There doesn't seem to be a discussion of the naming convention for FreeCOM. I take it from the fact that we group the stable and development kernel/freecom/sys separately that you should only use a stable kernel with a stable freecom and a development kernel with a development freecom. Is this correct? Maybe we shoudl say it explicitly. We should probably also say that you can mix development and debug development files (at least I assume that that is correct). Maybe we could improve the site somehow so the user can pick from some options like their machine type (8086 vs. whatever) and language and get given a list of the various files that are applicable to them. I'd be happy to work on such a web page once I understand all the constraints :) Regards, David ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
