> I would imagine that Freedos in 16 bit mode can't use multiple cores It can't actively take benefit from them, but it still runs, FYI :shock:
> One of the problems with DOS that I recall is a total > lack of hardware protection Right. > Unfortunately, accessing hardware directly > instead of through a __well__ __defined__ __interface__ > makes supporting that software a nightmare. Right. Do you know an OS with such a __well__ __defined__ __interface__ ??? > I'm thinking the goal for protected mode Freedos that is 32 or 64 bit > should be providing a hypervisor to run multiple instances of 16 bit > Freedos or even Linux instances. I'm sufficiently happy with ONE FreeDOS-16 instance and ZERO Loonix instances. > ReactOS is possibly a decade out from being stable. Please bug on ReactOS forum about this. > I think there were some ideas about DOS extenders for using > multi core multithreading within DOS apps HX 2.15 + 7-ZIP ... never came out. > pbzip2 compresses multiple parts of a file in parallel, so you > can compress one large file much faster by using many cores 1. Compression degrades 2. How do you glue the out fragments then ??? 3. Needs >=16 GiB RAM for file cache (and input should be < 8 GiB) > Why would I take the effort to port mencoder It's useless ;-) > Yes I can imagine making 1000 thumbnails in DOS or compressing a CD-ROM ISO with pbzip2 in DOS in theory. Why theory only ? > But then I also know that FAT32 cannot even > handle DVD or BluRay ISO file sizes > and my 1000 pics would not get from SD card to the DOS PC at decent > speed anyway, single core thumbnailing still faster than USB... Voila: 1. Bring out FreeDOS 1.1 2. Fix 4 GiB file size limit and improve USB 999'999'999'999. Add support for > 1 CPU cores > But maybe others have more ideas "why to DOS on 4 GHz 12-cores". Video (but not MENCODER) ? IIRC such discussions (64-bit - 1'000'000'000 cores - GUI OS - multitaxing - ...) come again and again ... so what :-D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
