Re: [Freedos-devel] i have a tech question about 286 and XMS

FWIW, Microsoft's HIMEM.SYS is compatible with 286 CPUs (and also with 386+). There's also an EMM286.EXE floating around that provides EMS for 286-class CPUs, but I don't think MS had anything to do with it. ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-dev

Re: [Freedos-devel] i have a tech question about 286 and XMS

Sorry, Tom, but this reply is, to use a technical term, pretty shit. We're talking about FreeDOS, a system that by design was created for hardware that would lose to our phones these days. If you 'only want to support 386+' then you can just as well install Dosbox. Either FreeDOS has the ambition t

Re: [Freedos-devel] i have a tech question about 286 and XMS

> is there any supported XMS driver for 286 that FreeDOS provides? himemx > dose not support it and the fd286xms driver is old and not supported. why do you think that software for 30+ years old hardware needs to be 'supported'. it's the same as last year, and 20 years before. And will work f

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2311

The FreeDOS Interim Test Build T2311 for November is now available for download at: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/ :-) Jerome __

Re: [Freedos-devel] i have a tech question about 286 and XMS

Hi! is there any supported XMS driver for 286 that FreeDOS provides? himemx dose not support it and the fd286xms driver is old and not supported. maybe i could work on it. yes i have a 286 xD it's just frustrating that everything requires a 386 If I were you, I would just use FDXMS286 and r

[Freedos-devel] i have a tech question about 286 and XMS

is there any supported XMS driver for 286 that FreeDOS provides? himemx dose not support it and the fd286xms driver is old and not supported. maybe i could work on it. yes i have a 286 xD it's just frustrating that everything requires a 386 with love, sparky4 Administrator of 四葉の芽◇ちゃんねる _