> I personally don't care what size the exes are So do many others. Result: Wing-ZIP 100 MiB ... Abobe-ACRO 100 MiB ... "Hello world" 30 Byte's to 10 MiB (depends from compiler) ... Linux 1 to 20 GiB (depends from distro)
> anyone noticed HXDOS? YES. Noticed 10 years ago, development stopped 5 years ago. > How long has it been since you've done performance tests on Java? > JRE 1.5 was a HUGE performance jump from 1.4, and 1.6 was another > smaller but still significant jump from 1.5. The start-up takes centuries, and eats away several GiB's of RAM. Maybe your test program runs indeed faster for you ... supposing that that whole thing doesn't crash due to lack of RAM even before. And I haven't seen (usable) JAVA for DOS yet. > > I'm thinking more and more there's no big niche for FreeDos. > The niche is running legacy software from ye olde days (or similar) That niche is filled by DOG-BOX/EMU, but maybe there are other niches left? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
