I disagree, based on experience... 8086 is *not* a good architecture, neither fast nor economic or easy to use. It is only relevant for legacy uses.
FreeDOS is above all ***DOS*** and it has to be used as such. No other achitecture. If you want modern architecture, look for ARM/Cortex. It you want a flexible OS, look for Linux; it has been *designed* for that. And just a remainder: Dosemu runs only on intel i386. If you want to simulate one CPU running on another, QEMU is the way to go. Alain Geraldo Netto escreveu: > Hi! > >> but my main concern is about 8086 guys who uses freedos, they wont be >> able to run such linux distro either for installation or any other form and i >> guess, they are reading this msg, right? :P >> >> Correct. >> >> 8086/80186 is alive and kicking (at least in the embedded world :-) >> >> Hans >> www.ht-lab.com > > Btw, really nice vhdl stuff Hans :) > > well, there is a compromise between 8086 and other arch > i mean, we have to keep 8086 compatibility but going with > linux we would be able to run freedos on non-x86 arch, which > is nice too... i can't confirm this, but supposing dosemu runs > as user mode software on top of linux, we should have no problem > running on other arch(?) > > Geraldo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
