On 01/09/2020 04:16, Jon Brase wrote:
it's also meant to be an alternative to MS-DOS for the very oldest PC hardware, all the way back to the original IBM 5150. The core software might therefore be expected to work in very little RAM. As I recall, the minimum configuration for the 5150 had only 16k of RAM. (...) So for FreeDOS to work on such machines, it has to (...)
Sorry, but there is no chance that FreeDOS could possibly run on 16K RAM. It requires at least 10 times as much, only to load itself (kernel needs about 64K, command.com requires roughly another 64K, plus buffers and stack) - and more to run any application bigger than a COM-style hello world.
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