Subj : Re: Running FREEDOS on Raspbery Pi
To : Kurt Weiske
From : Darryl Perry
Date : Mon Dec 29 2014 11:28 am
On 12/27/14, Kurt Weiske said the following...
KW> -=> Darryl Perry wrote to All <=-
KW>
KW> DP> If you run raspbian, you can simply do a 'apt-get install 8086tiny',
KW> DP> then run it from anywhere as '8086tiny'
KW>
KW> How is the speed/performance? I was thinking about getting a Pi to play
KW> with, and one of the projects I was thinking of for 2015 was a 30 day DOS
KW> challenge. I was thinking about using DOSBOX since I could telnet out
KW> with an old comm app like Telix.
Speed is about average. It's like playing on a 286. One thing I discovered
is that I cannot load high memory. I've tried freedos and MS-DOS 6.2.
MS-DOS thinks that the hardware is NOT 386 architecture, so none of the high
mem drivers will load.
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