On 8/25/2022 12:41 AM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote:
While thinking about 64k limit for edit... I come to think about 16 bits and 32
bits programs...
Why there is no two separate versions of FreeDOS, one for 16 bits CPUs (8086)
and one for 32 bits CPU (386+)?
It seems there is a lot of programs that cannot run on 8086... and others that
could take advantage of 32 bits compilation.
Does it should not suggest to have two separate versions foir this relatively
different needs?
Just because a program is 16bit vs 32bit doesn't make things like EDIT
automatically able to work with files larger than 64KB. It's a matter of
the library used to create EDIT (I think it's based on the OSS version
of TurboVision). To overcome this, you are pretty much going to have to
re-write the program from scratch. Knock yourself out...
Ralf
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