Hi!
> Figuring out what to use multiple cores for is a problem in today's
> world. What do you with seven cores? How about 100 cores? Multicore
> chips are not coming into existence because making faster single core
> chips doesn't make sense, they are coming into existence because making
> fa
At 04:38 PM 8/20/2011, Michael C. Robinson wrote:
>A thought experiment, ...
Do you realize that you are no longer talking about "DOS"?
>There apparently used to be a version of DOS called concurrent dos that
>actually attempted or was capable of multitasking. Multitasking in the
>multiple core
A thought experiment, could a 32 bit version of Freedos with a version
of Opengem that can support modern hardawre run on one processor
core while dos command lines that are actually full blown dos run on
the other processor cores? Segment the memory so that each core, say
1 gig per core on a qu
Hi Michael,
sorry about covering so many topics in one mail :-) I tried
to use paragraphs. Also, you are welcome to shorten quoted
parts a lot when you write replies to my mail. Thanks :-)
> I'm thinking of modern video cards and multiple core processors.
My modern video card works fine in DO
Op 20-8-2011 11:33, Michael C. Robinson schreef:
> The 386 on up supports protection in hardware to a certain degree. DOS
> has never been defined on modern 64 bit computers to my knowledge. Of
> course, I suppose one could have protection be an optional thing.
I fail to see why these additional
2011/8/20, Michael C. Robinson :
> ReactOS is possibly a decade out from being stable. I probably can't
> even compile an installable ISO right now. It isn't entirely clear why,
> but the ReactOS project is hitting some major show stoppers.
I'm afraid, that the major "stopper" is the fact, that
> Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm afraid, that the system, which is supposed to
> be "simple, light and really fast", just cannot have any "protection
> layers" - and _should_ allow direct access to hardware (unlike all
> those Unix-variants).
The 386 on up supports protection in hardware to a certain de
Op 20-8-2011 7:47, Michael C. Robinson schreef:
> I'm thinking of modern video cards and multiple core processors.
> I would imagine that Freedos in 16 bit mode can't use multiple
> cores. One of the problems with DOS that I recall is a total
> lack of hardware protection. This allowed direct har
2011/8/20, Michael C. Robinson :
> I'm thinking of modern video cards and multiple core processors.
> [..] I'm thinking that Freedos should be able to support
> multiple processing cores and other modern hardware. OpenGem should be
> upgraded to work on 32 or 64 bit systems. Another considerat
