Hallo Herr Mateusz Viste, am Mittwoch, 13. Oktober 2021 um 09:15 schrieben Sie:
> On 12/10/2021 22:49, E. Auer wrote: >> So at the risk of repeating the obvious: While it is possible to >> construct some problems to justify your desired powerful solution, >> this feels extremely over-designed from my view as Non-US DOS user. > As far as I understand, this is not about designing some new solution to > a possibly rare situation. This is about mimicking what MS did already > 40 years ago... Isn't that the primary objective of FreeDOS? I'm 100% certain that MSDOS didn't generate € characters in any codepage. this should end the story of €'s. >> If you want to address a REAL problem in FreeDOS > Now, about "real" problems: it's highly subjective. You may find the > 2GB-limit thing to be a problem - I don't. I'd say that if there's is > one problem with FreeDOS to pick up, it is COMMAND.COM's memory > footprint: it is *huge*. On my current setup, COMMAND.COM takes up 76K > of RAM. That's 30% of the total memory on this machine... MS-DOS has the > ability to swap out COMMAND.COM at runtime, so it takes roughly 5K (as > per MEM/C output). 1'st: 'problems' is the plural of problem. 1 person running a single museum 256K computer and insisting on using a 21'st century OS is still just 1 problem. 2'nd: your machine is perfectly fine with the software that it came with: MSDOS 1.0 or maybe 2.x 3'd: use the non-XMS-SWAP version of FreeCOM. it does exist, and is supposed to swap to/from disk (I never tried). case dismissed. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
