Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos release!

2014-04-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Travis, > I'm still wondering why there's nothing to take advantage of these > multi-core processors to allow someone to run multiple oses > simultaneously using one core for each os. No reason you can't use > task switching, and run dos, windows, linux, and others all on the > same m

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos release!

2014-04-29 Thread Bret Johnson
Nice try Travis, but it doesn't quite work that way. You obviously haven't done much research, or you would find that it's not "obviously possible". In spite of the fact that there may be multiple CPU's (or cores) in a computer, almost all of the other resources in the computer are shared. Thi

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos release!

2014-04-29 Thread Travis Siegel
I'm still wondering why there's nothing to take advantage of these multi-core processors to allow someone to run multiple oses simultaneously using one core for each os. No reason you can't use task switching, and run dos, windows, linux, and others all on the same machine, simply dropping