On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Koh Choon Lin <2choon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 1. Would like to ask how much memory does FreeDOS support, e.g. 4 GiB?
It's an open source clone of MS-DOS, which is a 16 bit real mode OS. It can see up to one megabyte of RAM as usable memory. Beyond that, you must load HIMEM.SYS and possible EMM386.EXE to get access to XMS or EMS. I have FreeDOS on an old notebook with 256MB RAM, and use XMS memory to support a ramdisk and a cache. > 2. Does it faces 640 KiB limitation as MS-DOS, e.g. Do I have to "load > high" drivers to save on conventional memory? Yes. > 3. Does it support usage of a swap file/partition? No, and doesn't really need one. It's not a virtual memory OS. > Regards > Koh Choon Lin ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
