On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 17:57:22 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Hi Eric,
>Hi, tried to mail Johnson directly, but got "relaying denied"... So on-list: Strange ... I can get FreeDOS-user without any problem >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 :-). Yes, it's cool run on a 8086. But I think to use a PC practical (not for fun), 80386 is the necessary grade and my bottom-line. We should look forward to utilize the SSE/3DNOW to let the BIG programs run faster or minimize size. For FreeDOS Kernel, it's small enough and fast enough which I agree with you, no need to optimize anymore. >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...). Almost forgot ... I run the CPULEVEL on a Pentium-133 MMX it give me garbage. Too bad I forgot the screen capture in office, send you later. Rgds, Johnson. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
