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posted by kerravon E-mail, Ligao, Free World North, 09.08.2021, 15:39

> > My vision of what MSDOS should have become in the late 1980s is here:
> >
> > http://pdos.org
>
>
> I downloaded the compressed file PDOS.ZIP (1262888 b), and inside it there
> is a VERY LARGE image file PDOS.IMG (1048190976 b) with 15 files that only
> occupy 351968 b.
It is designed to have stuff added to it.
1 GB is actually close to the limit of what
is needed if the entire toolchain source is
extracted and compiled. We're not hitting
that limit right at the moment though because
of bugs preventing the process from working.

> That's too big to test into 2 GB partitions
> (normal on MS-DOS hard drives
> with GRUB4DOS for loading floppy images)

I'm not familiar with that scenario. I would
have thought that 1 GB would fit comfortably
on 2 GiB partitions and that no-one in 2021
would have trouble finding 2 GiB of disk
space.

> It seems to me that to do different tests, it would be better also to
> prepare an image file of 1474560 b (1.44 M) or 2949539 b (2.88 M)
There already is. See pdosflop.img. 1.44M.
Search for:
"Also there is a floppy disk image here if you prefer that."
at http://pdos.org

It has been there for over a month, but perhaps
not when you downloaded the HD image.

BFN. Paul.

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