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Book8088's CF2IDE stumps Freedos boot (Users)

posted by tom Homepage, Germany (West), 02.02.2024, 14:15

> Not full blown MS-DOS 6.22 installation. It's bloated. MS-DOS 5.0 was much
> lighter.
it should be easy to delete everything that you onsider "Bloat".

> I think SvarDOS also uses a minified fork of FreeCOM so that should also
> help to minimize used memory, too.
it's not a fork, but a new implementation.

it's also much better suited for this machine as freecom doesn't swap out on a 8088 PC whereas swarcom needs only 2K resident memory.

of course you an also use the original command.com with AFAIR similar footprint.

 

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