On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Bob Cochran <bcochra...@verizon.net> wrote: > Thank you, Bret. I was just able to buy some reasonably priced USB > drives and I'll play with installing FreeDOS on these. I too seem to > remember that Win98 or Win XP DOS boot disks always boot with an > extended memory management application. Does FreeDOS have the > equivalent?
FreeDOS comes with open source equivalents of HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE. FreeDOS *is* a DOS system, so you'll have the standard DOS limit of 1MB of real memory, and 640KB of conventional memory available to applications. The box I have FreeDOS on has 256MB of RAM. I load HIMEM.SYS, and have a disk cache and a ramdisk in XMS memory. > The machine I'm testing FreeDOS on has 16 Gb of memory installed. Er, don't you mean 16 megabytes? > Bob ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
