On Fri, 2 Jan 2015, Mercury Thirteen wrote: > I've detailed the advantages in several other emails, and so far as what > applications would run on it... both traditional DOS apps and new 32-bit > applications as well.
Might be trickier if you're talking about 16-bit apps that hit the metal. Even Win9x had a 16-bit DOS under the hood. > The kernel, in the case of MS-DOS, would be IO.SYS. For FreeDOS it's > KERNEL.SYS - basically the core of the DOS, minus the interface shell. More precisely: the MS-DOS kernel is split between IO.SYS (the DOS BIOS) and MSDOS.SYS (the BDOS). DR DOS maintains this distinction, using the names from PC DOS (IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM respectively). It is a distinction inherited from CP/M. -uso. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
