Re: [Freedos-devel] dos64

2006-11-27 Thread TG
, November 21, 2006 8:29 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] dos64 Just curious; would this run real-mode DOS applications? If so, as far as I understand this would be extremely slow because you have to switch 64bit-32bit-16bit-32bit-64bit. On 11/21/06, Владимир [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, freedos

Re: [Freedos-devel] dos64

2006-11-24 Thread Lester
BC: speedwise, it isn't very practical if you expect to run 16-bit apps on a 64-bit OS, if not impossible without complete CPU emulation. Ideally, it would require applications specifically designed for 64-bit DOS. Sounds like daydreaming, but let's see what happens. Lester

Re: [Freedos-devel] dos64

2006-11-23 Thread Lester
tom ehlert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tom E: as far as I know FreeDOS works great on AMD64 no need for such a (completely empty) project ... FreeDOS is 16-bit os, FreeDOS-32 is 32-bit os and this project is not called FreeDOS but some other DOS and seems to be about

Re: [Freedos-devel] dos64

2006-11-23 Thread Blair Campbell
Yes but speedwise I am saying that it isn't very practical if you expect to run 16-bit apps on a 64-bit OS, if not impossible without complete CPU emulation. On 11/23/06, Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tom ehlert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tom E: as far as I know

Re: [Freedos-devel] dos64

2006-11-22 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Blair, Just curious; would this run real-mode DOS applications? If so, as far as I understand this would be extremely slow because you have to switch 64bit-32bit-16bit-32bit-64bit. as far as I know FreeDOS works great on AMD64 (in good old real mode); no need for such a (completely

Re: [Freedos-devel] dos64

2006-11-22 Thread Lyrical Nanoha
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, tom ehlert wrote: as far as I know FreeDOS works great on AMD64 (in good old real mode); no need for such a (completely empty) project Yep. I have an AMD64, never had trouble running DOS if I needed it. -uso.

Re: [Freedos-devel] dos64

2006-11-22 Thread Alain M.
I hava a few AMD-Semprom-64 and many clients have a great assortment of everyting new , a lot of them 64 bits. DOS and FreeDOS run just fine. The problem is that sometimes new machines have BIOS with little problems. Only once in about 200, I got problems using VESA. NIC drivers usually are

[Freedos-devel] dos64

2006-11-21 Thread Владимир
Hello, freedos-devel. I have created project DOS64. If somebody will interest, take part. http://sourceforge.net/projects/dos64 -- Vladimir [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join

Re: [Freedos-devel] dos64

2006-11-21 Thread Blair Campbell
Just curious; would this run real-mode DOS applications? If so, as far as I understand this would be extremely slow because you have to switch 64bit-32bit-16bit-32bit-64bit. On 11/21/06, Владимир [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, freedos-devel. I have created project DOS64. If somebody will