Hi! > Can Freedos run on 286 machine?
Yes, definitely, but there are some limitations: 286 is older than 386, so you cannot use EMM386. You can look at uwe-sieber.de (home of UMBPCI) to check if there are other tools to create UMBs on your 286 anyway. There are also tools like EMM286 to emulate EMS on a 286, but that is very slow. As far as I remember, our HIMEM and QHIMEM both do not support 286, so you will have to use a driver of the FDXMS family, like FDXMS286, to have XMS and HMA memory on a 286. Having such memory is very useful on any PC with more than one megabyte of RAM, because our kernel, with the DOS=HIGH option, and our FreeCOM command.com, by default, can use the XMS and HMA instead of using low DOS memory for many things. If you only have 640k RAM, you should use the special "non- XMS SWAP" version of FreeCOM. That version has a CALL /S command instead, which lets command.com "hibernate" while you run a command, so more RAM will be free while your command runs. Using the normal XMS-swap version on a PC without XMS RAM can easily waste 50-200 kB of DOS RAM. Of the software in our "base" category, www.freedos.org/cgi-bin/freedos-lsm.cgi?q=d&a=base most should work on a 286 without problems. Known exceptions are emm386/himem, the udma driver, and the harddisk and cdrom caches. Please let me know if you have problems with other software as well. And please let me know if FreeDOS works okay on your 286 computer - and where you found such an old computer ;-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
