The current memory requirement is a function of your design, which I think could be improved. Disk based data structures are not that difficult to implement.
I have a PCjr with a 20GB Maxtor drive on it, of which 600MB is in use. There are lots of 8086 and 80286 class machines with larger than original hard drives on them; drive overlay software made that possible 20 years ago. Recent IDE controller projects have expanded the number of old machines that are hard drive capable. You are incorrect in you belief that old machines can not benefit from a package manager. FreeDOS will get no traction among the sizeable retro-computing community of these kinds of design decisions continue to ignore the more interesting, older machines. On Aug 31, 2015 11:50 PM, "Mateusz Viste" <mate...@viste.fr> wrote: > Hi Sparky, > > On 31/08/2015 19:38, sparky4 wrote: > > I want to make a 16 bit version of this program... wwww > > You are most certainly welcome to do so - that's what open-source is all > about. > > I can't help but wonder though - is there any practical need behind such > work? I don't really see what this would improve. Sure, it would make > FDNPKG potentially run on 80286 CPUs - but I am not convinced anyone > would want to run a package manager on a 286. Disk space is usually > scarce on these machines (if there is a hard disk in the first place), > so I'd rather think people will turn to good old manual 'copying what I > need' on such hardware. It's worth noting that 8086 and 80186 are out of > scope anyway due to memory constraints, since FDNPKG definitely requires > more than 640K of RAM to work. > > Mateusz > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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