For what it's worth:
I have a 286 I still use. A 286 is enough for the Win95 version of
EDIT.COM (it uses some 186 opcodes), so that's usually what I go with.
It's still important to *me* to be able to support 8086 and 286 PCs. But
with that said, I've felt that that's best done by me coding the support I
want my damnself, so far as I can.
And there's the rub...
I have a different style of pretty much everything compared to most of the
people here (it's a main reason I went my own way and started work on my
own MS-DOS clone, even though apart from some little pieces of the
userland I really didn't get all that far).
FreeDOS, for the most part, targets the high end - 386, 486 and beyond
(this is my perception and my opinion). I decided to try to target the
low end and try to bring some of the MS-DOS 6 capabilities to MS-DOS 3.3,
until I could do something about the lower-level stuff like kernel and
command.com which are still (despite me writing a nearly complete
implementation in C of command.com 20 years ago it is too broken to be
practical) outside my wheelhouse.
But all of this is my opinion. I was the one who did a bunch of testing
of FreeDOS back in the day on a really oddball XT clone (the Tandy
1000HX); that had an 8088.
-uso.
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