Hi, Well, at least while those fancy 64-bit processors start at 16-bit, and have a 32-bit mode that can run tasks in the V86 mode, we are safe. I wonder, however, what will happen once Microsoft start releasing Windows only in the x64 flavour (and drop the x86), and something happens about our old 16-bit BIOS (EFI?).
Regards, Aitor 2009/8/13 King InuYasha <ngomp...@gmail.com>: > As far as I can tell, the last commit in the SVN for the project was in > 2007, so it's either abandoned, in hiatus, or going so slowly that no > commits have been pushed through in the last two years. > Remaking the FreeDOS kernel to be 32-bit might be rather significant, or > even to 64-bit, since we are starting to see quite a few 64-bit processors. > The only problem with a 64-bit FreeDOS kernel is figuring out how to deal > with 16-bit applications. I'd say the best option would be to add a > driver/module that would do the exact same thing as user-mode QEMU on Linux: > emulate a processor and load it in a hybrid environment. > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Michael Robinson <plu...@robinson-west.com> > wrote: >> >> There was an effort to create a 32 bit version of freedos with memory >> protection and possibly some other features. What is happening with >> this project? I'm just curious is all. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 >> 30-Day >> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus >> on >> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >> Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
