Thanks Jim for your encouragement and support. What your suggesting is an
interesting idea, like Pat Villani's original idea of implementing FreeBSD
drivers into DOS. This idea intrigues me alot, i am a big BSD fan especially
NetBSD and DragonflyBSD, thus implementing a Hybrid DOS-BSD system wou
Hi,
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Michael B. Brutman
wrote:
>
> Rugxulo,
>
> You read into things too literally at times ... ;-0
I know, and I was being facetious (somewhat).
> The 808x series of processor was segmented.
But compared to CP/M (64k max. per app), it was a big improvement.
>
Hello
I had lately experimented with Tiny Core Linux. I've installed DOSEMU
compiled on my Ubuntu station (only "dosemu.bin" and "libplugin_X.so")
onto it and a FreeDOS based installation and it worked fine, as far I
have tested. If you use Xorg instead of Xvesa, then it will support
graphics
Michael B. Brutman wrote:
> Just my opinion, but here it is ...
>
> Trying to do a new OS that resembles DOS but has modern features is not
> feasible and not going to happen. The biggest problem is DOS
> compatibility - as soon as you start messing with the memory management,
> APIs or fixin
Rugxulo,
You read into things too literally at times ... ;-0
The 808x series of processor was segmented. It was used on a machine
that reserved a portion of memory for system BIOS, system BIOS
extensions, and video RAM.
The first versions of the operating system (DOS) did very little to mas
