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to: Kurt Weiske
from: Darryl Perry
date: 2014-12-29 11:28:42
subject: Re: Running FREEDOS on Raspbery Pi

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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