Hi, Am Mi, den 30.06.2004 schrieb Jérémie LEFRANCOIS um 14:05: > Where would I download a free OS/2 (possible ?) and a free LINUX both "stripped > down" as you say ? Or they have to be installed and the GUI never started I > suppose... > I found "TINYLINUX" somewhere , yet what do you suggest ? Of course the latest > Red Hat is out of scope... > > Getting the whole thing to work on LINUX might imply more work than getting it > to work under DOS, so that option is not my first choice, but seems advisable > in the end of the process, to have a "safer" multitasker.
You might want to take a look at PicoBSD (stripped down FreeBSD for network router and the like, fits one one floppy disk): http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ I don't know if it is maintained in any way, but a year ago I had it running on a i386/40 with 16 MB RAM. Another source to mention: Somewhere deep down in my archives there should be an old multi-threading code for Delphi 1 (in words: one) for 16 bit Win3.1. Maybe this can be adopted to use in fpc-console mode. It is written around a task switching core in assembler code wrapped into a Delphi 1 TThread implementation. It's origin has been the "white ants" website, the creator of early "modelmaker" that has been absorbed by Borland-Inprise-Borland Inc. a while ago. The sorting example code from Delphi 2 - do you remember the three windows with red vertical lines? - was backported by white ants and worked fine. Searching would take some time, though. But I'll do if there is a chance to see the porting results to dos or whatever with my own eyes. :) Bye, Marc _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal