Hi, tried to mail Johnson directly, but got "relaying denied"... So on-list:
Hi, this is NOT a problem with the CPU if you ask me. It is one with the BIOS for all what I can tell. FreeDOS runs fine on K6-2, I have one myself. The K6-2 is 100% compatible to 386, and as you know, FreeDOS is even compatible to everything which is 8086 compatible (plus a few tools require a 386 compatibility). I do not think that optimizing the FAT32 kernel for 386 would make it much smaller or faster, and it is somehow cool to have FAT32 which even runs on 8086 :-). Eric. PS: I think the K6-2 is even completely Pentium compatible, while my old CPU, a non-MMX 6x86 M1, lacked for example the Time Stamp Counter and several other Pentium features (it even has CPUID disabled by default, but I enable it in autoexec - which makes COMPINFO crash, because it just checks for CPUID existance but not for the TSC support flag...). ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
