Perverted DOS idea

From: John Wilson <wilson_at_dbit.dbit.com>
Date: Thu Jun 8 13:26:48 2000

On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 05:25:00PM +0200, Hans Franke wrote:
>If you'd like to boot DOS 2.11 (my recomendation) 128 K is sufficient
>for DOS and most tools. It should be possible to strip it down to run
>in as little as ~96 k, but below 64 K not even a complete boot is possible.
>
>DOS 1.X is able to run in 64 K, although it will be hard to find programs
>still able to run - after the introduction of DOS 2.0 everybody switched
>for the new file I/O (Unix style, without FCBs).

FWIW, PC-DOS V2.0 runs OK in 64 KB. You can't fit much else in there with
it, but it does come up OK.

John Wilson
D Bit
Received on Thu Jun 08 2000 - 13:26:48 BST