On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 at 21:24, tsiegel--- via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Won't work. Dos itself uses a *lot* of interrupt calls to do things. Er, kinda sorta, ish, but this is not a useful statement in any way I can interpret. It's a bit like saying, er, "boats use a *lot* of propellers so you can't make a boat without a propeller!" To which I'd say: canoe. > The raspberry pies run processors that don't support interrupts. That bears no resemblance to any form of truth, no. > Therefore, porting a stand-alone version of dos to the pie just won't work. That is true but not for why you say. The Raspberry Pi is an Arm device. DOS is deeply tied to the x86-16 CPU model, with some x86-32 extensions. It is not meaningfully possible to create anything usefully like DOS for an Arm chip. So, in summary, no really, no, and oh my no. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
