> Interesting, how far did they get? public plans ...
> What stopped the plans? Only Japheth knows ... > No. BZIP2 has a maximum block size of 900k anyway and Deflate and LZMA have no block limit ;-) > > 2. How do you glue the out fragments then ??? > See above. Not really. You don't know the compressed size in advance. Where do you write compressed block 1 when size of block 0 is unknown ??? > It works fine in Linux already What useful and unique work can it do ??? > and you can dual-boot :-p FreeDOS + EDR-DOS :-p > Because in practice downloading 1000 pics from your cam > in DOS will be slower than making 1000 thumbs in 1 core. Right ... there is space for improvements of DOS USB drivers. > You mean video processing? YES > First add NCQ support, RAID support Why ? > a filesystem like ext2 or even much better, a > write-combining cache, accelerated graphics, surround > digital audio... And then you have Linux again anyway Nothing of those is needed (fixing 4 GiB problem appreciated, though) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
