> On 1/29/2013 11:09 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: >>> - An editor should be small enough to run on a 128K machine. >> FreeDOS will not run on a 128K machine.
> Ok. Then make it 256. You get the idea. > I haven't looked into the source code, but is FreeDOS really that much > of a memory hog where it will not boot and run in 128K? just as an exercise: have you tried to run MSDOS 6.22 (where we are mostly comparable to) on a 128K XP machine ? the kernel itself is - after init - ~64 K. no XMS around, so this stays 64 K. how do you start 64K+ Freecom in 64K- left and do more then @ECHO Hello World ? > That seems absurd. your hope to run a 20 year old 'modern' DOS on a 35 years old machine is absurd. it's like complaining the Ford T4 had no climate control > We can debate how useful a 128K machine is, but DOS can't > possibly be using all of that memory. >>> - Calculator? How many people do not have a physical calculator or cell >>> phone laying around nearby? >> you are right. but wtf will I use a 128K machine for if I have a >> iPhone around ? > Because some people are interested in old hardware ? What kind of > question is that? if you have a 128K machine, you also have a MSDOS 1.0 operating system for it. go use this. > Why is anybody messing with FreeDOS in the first place? some use it to do something *useful* > DAED and (the advanced version of Dewar's Visual EDitor) has this > feature. It ran well in a 128K machine. great. no need to write yet another journaling editor > I understand your skepticism. But running in a 128K machine is really > not such a stretch. (Unless FreeDOS really is a memory hog. I'll have > to go see what it's using.) I'd be surprised if MSDOS 6.22 does significant different FreeDOS Kernel and COMMAND have been optimized to use XMS; 128K PC machines were never a target. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
