Perverted DOS idea

From: Jason McBrien <jbmcb_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu Jun 8 12:14:00 2000

Check out the freedos project, they've got src for their open source, GPL'd
command.com available.
http://www.freedos.org/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <ckaiser_at_oa.ptloma.edu>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: Perverted DOS idea


> ::> How little memory could you run something like, say, DOS 3.3 in? All I
> ::> would be supporting is a basic command set like COMMAND.COM, EDLIN,
DEBUG,
> ::> maybe XCOPY, etc. And are the INTs documented anywhere?
> ::
> ::I'd guess 128k and certainly in 256k. the Command.com itself is some 27k
> ::or 33k alone.
>
> That was the thing I was worried about. Maybe I'll write Command.com
natively
> instead.
>
> Someone suggested emulation from disk, and that's exactly how I was
thinking
> of doing it.
>
> Where can I find a list of INTs DOS uses? I checked a couple of bookstores
> but most of them aren't too helpful with low-level DOS.
>
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> -- UBAX vs lbh ybir
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>
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