Re: [Freedos-user] IDE <-> CF adapters

2020-12-22 Thread DosWorld via Freedos-user
> I have a 486 Toshiba laptop and a 286 desktop. Both use CF cards as their > only storage, connected through cheap mechanical CF<->IDE adapters. It works > perfectly. > Which size (MB) this cards ? ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.

Re: [Freedos-user] IDE <-> CF adapters

2020-12-22 Thread DosWorld via Freedos-user
>> 1. This is bad idea - use flash cards for swap or more modern os (like all >> windows). I had experience with 16 TF cards, which die after 1 year (rewrite >> limit). All 16 cards work in non-overloaded machines. >> Another point - try use SSD. Like PCIE in "PCIE to IDE" box (one year ago, i

Re: [Freedos-user] IDE <-> CF adapters

2020-12-22 Thread DosWorld via Freedos-user
> Primary master: 512 MiB DOS partition, Win 95 above 512 MiB > Primary slave: possible 512 MiB DOS partition, Linux home and root above 512 > MiB, plus anything Unixy I feel like experimenting with. > Secondary master: 512 MiB FAT partition for Win 3/9x page files, Linux swap > above 512 MiB.

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

2020-12-14 Thread DosWorld via Freedos-user
More points: 1. "It needs to be noted that words of less than 2 characters and more than 17characters cannot be indexed" Forth-language (one more dinosaur) have many 1-char commands (like @ ! , . + - / [ ] : ; etc ). So, need expect users, who want find @ into 1-char article name. https://for

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

2020-12-14 Thread DosWorld via Freedos-user
Hello, Mateusz! I am wrote to you email with a few fords about AMB. I don't read this mail-list, so don't see your announces. I have few offers for AMB extension. I am software developer, author of text editor for DOS, which can work as lightweight IDE. (https://github.com/DosWorld/dwed) Fo