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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.               "No matter where you go, there you are!" - Buckaroo Bonzai              --- Mystic BBS v1.10 A59 (Linux)        * Origin: Cyberia BBS | Cyberia.Darktech.Org | Kingwood, TX (1:106/324)    |
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