[Freedos-user] RAM size

2015-03-17 Thread navis
Hi, Why mem.exe returns "Total memory" 3 612 188K but  EAX=500h/int 31h (and EAX=0xff90/int 21h by DOS32A) returns 2 096 601K only? Alex -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:06 PM, dmccunney wrote: > > There is still potential use for DOS in the embedded space, but I > expect that is dropping as HW becomes more powerful and cheaper. > Embedded systems are increasingly built around 32 bit ARM CPUs, where > DOS is not an option but you ca

Re: [Freedos-user] new uide version? details?

2015-03-17 Thread Ralf Quint
On 3/17/2015 1:42 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > but due to some Sourceforge / Opera incompatibility, Jack can not > announce it here himself? Its not an "incompatibility" but it seems some people are just missing the boat and don't know that in recent weeks a lot of old, no longer safe cipher suites ha

[Freedos-user] new uide version? details?

2015-03-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, looking at http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14140 there is a recent version of Jack's UIDE and other drivers at > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ellis/drivers-2015-03-05.zip and even newer, from today, in dropbox on > http://dl.dropboxuserc

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-17 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Don Flowers wrote: >>What do you run as your "production" OS? I'm willing to bet it's not > a flavor of DOS. > > Linux (Kubuntu [Ubuntu/Debian derivatives) is my primary OS, but FreeDOS is > my secondary OS followed by Windows 7 on one machine only because I recen

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-17 Thread Don Flowers
>What do you run as your "production" OS? I'm willing to bet it's not a flavor of DOS. Linux (Kubuntu [Ubuntu/Debian derivatives) is my primary OS, but FreeDOS is my secondary OS followed by Windows 7 on one machine only because I recently acquired an HP Elite 8000 for under $100 with W7 preinsta

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-17 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:23 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:34 PM, dmccunney wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >>> >>> No, many compilers make it totally transparent to the end user. So you >>> don't even have to write any non-portable code (usually). And

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size

2015-03-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
I see a subject line of "No subject"; I must have forgotten to copy the intended subject line. Going back to 2001, I used Enhanced Editor (EPM) in OS/2 Warp 4, but was forced off this editor cold-turkey when the system crashed sometime during the single-digit days of April 2001. CHKDSK, runni

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:34 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> No, many compilers make it totally transparent to the end user. So you >> don't even have to write any non-portable code (usually). And this >> goes even beyond obvious "32-bit DPMI" DJG