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   Darryl Perry to Kurt Weiske   
   Re: Running FREEDOS on Raspbery Pi   
   29 Dec 14 11:28:43   
   
   On 12/27/14, Kurt Weiske said the following...   
       
    KW> -=> Darryl Perry wrote to All <=-   
    KW>    
    KW>  DP> If you run raspbian, you can simply do a 'apt-get install 8086tiny',   
    KW>  DP> then run it from anywhere as '8086tiny'   
    KW>    
    KW> How is the speed/performance? I was thinking about getting a Pi to play   
    KW> with, and one of the projects I was thinking of for 2015 was a 30 day DOS   
    KW> challenge. I was thinking about using DOSBOX since I could telnet out   
    KW> with an old comm app like Telix.   
      
   Speed is about average.  It's like playing on a 286.  One thing I discovered   
   is that I cannot load high memory.  I've tried freedos and MS-DOS 6.2.    
   MS-DOS thinks that the hardware is NOT 386 architecture, so none of the high   
   mem drivers will load.   
      
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