On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:07:01 -0500, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. Isn`t XMGR.SYS the xms memory manager under FreeDOS? Loading HIMEM.SYS seemed to cause a crash for me, although I could be wrong. > >> The machine I'm testing FreeDOS on has 16 Gb of memory installed. > > Er, don't you mean 16 megabytes? 16GB as in gigabytes is certainly believable these days, on a 64-bit system. > >> 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
