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FreeDOS on SBC188 (Announce)

posted by ecm Homepage E-mail, Düsseldorf, Germany, 14.09.2020, 23:22

> how do i know these things? i don't know exactly how SBC188's RAM is
> mapped,
> is there any way to find out? however with ms dos 6.22 the ram occupied was
> only 60k (command.com) freedos consumes almost 140k
The memory usage of FreeDOS is probably due to FreeCOM (their command.com) not swapping itself away when you run another program. I think (as per Rugxulo's comments) that this is only implemented one way per build, and the default build requires XMS for its swap method.

About how to know that, I cannot tell you. This thread is the first I've ever heard of the SBC188 so I don't know the details either. Perhaps someone else who works with these boards knows more. Anyway, it isn't that important.

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