DOS ain't dead

RxDOS release? (Announce)

posted by roytam, 20.05.2018, 01:20

> > Thanks.
> > Do you plan to release updated RxDOS binaries?
>
> I don't currently have access to any hosting. If Robert wants to upload
> something, I could prepare an archive.
>
> It's still some way from being usable though; filesystem redirector support
> is entirely missing, initialisation doesn't relocate data structures yet
> (they sit at the top of low memory), some initialisation structures aren't
> deallocated yet (also at top of low memory), [Rx]CONFIG.SYS processing
> doesn't detect and report errors properly, RxCMD doesn't swap out its code
> segment (and it generally receives less attention on my part), an init PSP
> isn't used yet, sector sizes other than 512 bytes aren't properly supported
> yet, cluster sizes are only supported up to 32768 bytes.
>
> Some things that I already did: DOSCODE to HMA, to UMA, or to LMA
> relocation, DOSDATA to UMA or LMA relocation, UMB linking and usage,
> setting up the CDS with 32 entries early on, full RPL/RPLOADER support,
> full LBA32 support, booting as a single-file kernel.

doesn't bitbucket providing space for binaries?
https://bitbucket.org/ecm/rxdos-7.2x/downloads/

Complete thread:

• New lDOS memory subsystem source code - ecm, 03.05.2018, 13:00 (Announce)
  • New lDOS memory subsystem source code - Guti, 19.05.2018, 07:51
    • RxDOS release? - ecm, 19.05.2018, 22:28
      • RxDOS release? - roytam, 20.05.2018, 01:20
        • RxDOS release? - ecm, 21.05.2018, 15:03
          • RxDOS release? - roytam, 31.08.2018, 04:59
            • RxDOS release? - ecm, 01.09.2018, 12:25
        • RxDOS release? - ecm, 22.05.2018, 14:35
          • RxDOS release? - Guti, 22.05.2018, 15:10