Re: [Freedos-user] R: Running Freedos on bare metal in the future ?

2024-11-01 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user
Hi Eric, > On Nov 1, 2024, at 7:41 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user > wrote: > But back to the bare metal topic: If you run a simulation of a 486 CPU on > some FPGA, the result still is just a simulation. Not in software like QEMU > and all those other virtual computer apps, but in hardware.

Re: [Freedos-user] R: Running Freedos on bare metal in the future ?

2024-11-01 Thread Sabina Zelená . via Freedos-user
‎Greetings,Mr.Alessandro,thank U very much for the good news.BTW would U sell me 1 of Your 286 @ 25MHz?I now have 3 pcs of 286 PCs,but all @ 16MHz,i would like to also have a 286 @ some other frequency & I have 48

Re: [Freedos-user] R: Running Freedos on bare metal in the future ?

2024-11-01 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi! it is a bit difficult to make a motherboard or hardware without factory equipment Actually not. There are factories doing exactly that for their customers. You just send them the design data and they produce the hardware for you. Large orders obviously get better prices then. But ba

Re: [Freedos-user] Running Freedos on bare metal in the future ?

2024-11-01 Thread Sabina Zelená . via Freedos-user
‎Greetings. What about adding CSM Legacy Support to new MoBos by firmware update,so like adding the 2013s MoBos' abilities to 2024s MoBos? Was also Legacy instructions removed from new CPUs,or the Legacy Mode is "only" obstructed by removing CSM options from new firmware? If the latter is true,co

Re: [Freedos-user] Running Freedos on bare metal in the future ?

2024-11-01 Thread Sabina Zelená . via Freedos-user
‎Greetings. I do have sufficient supplies of old old Legacy HW for the rest of my life,but this was meant for next generations,when all the old stuff will be eaten by the 2nd law of thermodynamics... The whole point is to made new old HW be made again for accessible prices also for next generati

Re: [Freedos-user] Running Freedos on bare metal in the future ?

2024-11-01 Thread Sabina Zelená . via Freedos-user
‎Greetings,of course,if there is a clone of 486,there is no need to clone 086.Thanx for the good news,that such clones exist & r doable,thus Legacy architecture is not dead.So the remaining problem is to make it c

Re: [Freedos-user] Moving towards FreeDOS 1.4

2024-11-01 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user
Hi Tom > On Nov 1, 2024, at 1:09 PM, tom ehlert via Freedos-user > wrote: > > Hallo Herr Jerome Shidel > >> Also, FreeCOM and Kernel are using Unstable branches on the Interim Build. > >> There have not been any commits to the unstable Kernel branch. So, it is the >> same as the master bran

Re: [Freedos-user] Moving towards FreeDOS 1.4

2024-11-01 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
Hallo Herr Jerome Shidel > Also, FreeCOM and Kernel are using Unstable branches on the Interim Build. > There have not been any commits to the unstable Kernel branch. So, it is the > same as the master branch which is the version provided with FreeDOS 1.3. so, the unstable kernel 1.3 is exactl

Re: [Freedos-user] Moving towards FreeDOS 1.4

2024-11-01 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
Hallo Herr Jerome Shidel > Also, FreeCOM and Kernel are using Unstable branches on the Interim Build. > There have not been any commits to the unstable Kernel branch. So, it is the > same as the master branch which is the version provided with FreeDOS 1.3. so, the unstable kernel 1.3 is exactl