I don't think you'll find too many 8086 machines these days, let alone 80186. I fact I saw such a thing once in my entire life. A Triumph-Adler with an amber monochrome monitor, which I found so cool, I still change the font settings to amber-on-black 30 years later on whatever system I'm working on :)
On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 at 18:03, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > >> Ok, then I have some numbers for you: FreeDOS kernel builds in 4 seconds, > >> FreeCOM builds in 41 minutes, on the same machine. To be fair, this > >> includes the executables for all languages and the XMSSWAP, KSSF variants > >> (which in the previous mail I referred to as memory strategies). > > > so you are rebuilding freecom 32 times, for a build time of ~40 seconds. > > not that fast, but not so terrible slow either. > > It's probably time to kill (or at least build and deliver by default) the > KSSF variant (to half build times), > and replace it by the SVARDOS command.com which should also be made efault on > 8086 and 80186 machines as they don't have XMS memory. > > This would also give the SVARDOS command.com some more testing ;) > > Tom > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
