I disagree, based on experience...
8086 is *not* a good architecture, neither fast nor economic or easy to
use. It is only relevant for legacy uses.
FreeDOS is above all ***DOS*** and it has to be used as such. No other
achitecture.
If you want modern architecture, look for ARM/Cortex. It you
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Geraldo Netto wrote:
> i can't confirm this, but supposing dosemu runs
> as user mode software on top of linux, we should have no problem
> running on other arch(?)
No. DOSemu is a sort of dedicated virtual machine for running DOS
under Linux. It runs DOS nativel
Hi!
> but my main concern is about 8086 guys who uses freedos, they wont be
> able to run such linux distro either for installation or any other form and i
> guess, they are reading this msg, right? :P
>
> Correct.
>
> 8086/80186 is alive and kicking (at least in the embedded world :-)
>
> Hans
>
Hi,
I agree with Alain that 8086 is far from good been a huge fan of arm/mips/...
for embedded stuff
> If you want modern architecture, look for ARM/Cortex. It you want a
> flexible OS, look for Linux; it has been *designed* for that.
>
> And just a remainder: Dosemu runs only on intel i386.
> If
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From: "Geraldo Netto"
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Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Determining partition types (NTFS, etc)
Hi Again!
>> btw, why not make freedos installation using linux?
>
> There was once a very interestick pack: Linux kernel + dosemu +
