Hallo Michał, > > It does! Completely forgot about that. Good idea! I Installed FreeDOS on a XT today. But it took some time because I first had to find a better system so I could install from CD. Having installed FreeDOS on its harddisk, I could create a bootable floppy that I could use on its turn to install it on my XT. > FreeDOS hardware compatibility page does not look promising. FreeDOS expects a 100% IBM compatible PC. And that means it doesn't need an IO.SYS equivalent and puts the rest in KERNEL.SYS. BUT.....: it is open source and THAT enables one to adapt it use it with the CBM-II. Just pops up: how do all those system programs, like FDISK and DEBUG, write to the screen? INT 10h or direct mmory access? Most things are written C and so it is the compiler that decides that. I think I have to decrease my enthousiasm about FreeDOS a bit. > say that it needs "as little as" 640 kB memory FreeDOS will run on a 256 KB machine, no problem. The problem is the left over free memory: you don't have enough room to run any decent progam. But you will have, more or less, the same problem with DOS 3.3. -- Kind regards / Met vriendelijke groet, Ruud Baltissen www.Baltissen.org Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2017-10-15 20:00:02
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