Re: [Freedos-kernel] nevermind..

[Bernd Blaauw]

reason is speedup.
It's faster to read a single 360KB file into RAM and then run from 
there, than to keep reading a diskette.
guess you had the bootdisk from prerelease 4, or the one below:
http://fdos.org/ripcord/beta9rc5/fdos1440.img

the real floppy contents is accessible as B:

are you the same Wørm who had a bootdisk site?
it disappeared quite a while ago.
Bernd

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[Freedos-kernel] nevermind..

[Wørm]

I understand now that you're using a small image file
on the floppy...the logic behind this decision evades
me entirely.
 - BC

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