Just to complement:
A DOS in 16 bit only + a pure 16bit program can access FAT32 systems.
This happens a lot.
> You cannot use the full 4 GB because all PCI, AGP,
> PCIe etc modern graphics cards have their graphics
> RAM accessible via addresses in the last 0.X of the
> first 4 gigabytes of add
> I let File system specialists rectify or detail if not right
Of course ;-)
1) Though advertised as FAT32, it doesn't really use 32 bits for cluster
numbers. Though each FAT entry is a DWord (32-bit number), the filesystem
only uses 28 of these bits. However this is a detail most people don'
Hi!
>> can run any 32 bit console app?
What do you call 32 bit console app? If you mean
"Windows 32 bit text mode program" then the HX
DOS extender might help you, because it also has
some built-in Windows-like services to make apps
made for Windows happy. While some people think
"if it is text
Hi,
FAT32 has no relation with the binary type, it is simply a Fat file system where
file pointers are encoded on 32 Bits words, this allowing the addressing of a
larger space on disk ( I let File system specialists rectify or detail if not
right)
The Fat 32 also has the specificity to allow the u
kurt godel schrieb:
> I am somewhat confused. Freedos runs on fat32; does this mean that freedos
> can run any 32 bit console app?
Many answers already. Like said FAT16 or FAT32 are just filesystems,
them have nothing to do with which kind of binarys you can run.
FreeDOS can run 16 bit DOS applic
> I am somewhat confused. Freedos runs on fat32; does this mean that
> freedos
> can run any 32 bit console app?
No. The "32" in FAT32 refers to some data format on the disk; FAT32
support doesn't require a 32-bit operating system.
> In fact, how much ram can freedos access? I have usually te
> -Original Message-
> From: kurt godel [mailto:wb2...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 1:10 PM
> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Freedos-user] dos,hx,dpmi,etc.
>
> I am somewhat confused. Freedos runs on fat32; does this mean
> that freedos can run any 32
