On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:15:07 +0100, you wrote: Hi, >we're just mentioning that should run on 8086, and that they should >support fat32. Not that FAT32 on 8086 should work in all cases.. >No 2 TeraBytes partitions on an 8bit ISA controller in a 8086..although >the mailinglist did receive mail from a person with 8086 computer and >cdrom installed on it.
Still thinking how many 8086 PC can support the new hardware. Also is it worth to support the minority with so many resources? Actually I don't mind 8086 support, but I prefer majority have the priority. >just like opensource SMB for DOS..everything relies on MS TCP/IP stack, >which is a memory hog and can hardly be loaded out of conventional memory. Yes, I can understand TCP/IP eat a lot of memory. This kind of tough work should code in assembly to minimize the size, but again tough job. >I don't know how large Linux itself is nowadays. 1MB or so? The people >working on the LinuxBIOS project have trouble integrating it into >firmware due to size restrictions of the BIOS chip. Knoppix has also >converted its own bootimage to 2.88MB (or is running Isolinux instead of >direct floppy emulation). It's great to put some low-level code in BIOS, maybe FreeDOS can also benefit from it. Rgds, Johnson. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005 Visit http://www.jboss.com/services/certification for more information _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
