Hi ReactOS can not be run on i386 or i486 will offical change it to P1 or P2 soon adding vitual machine for 16bits apps it mean we can later allown any dos apps runing in ros, and allown it messy with the vitural hw we add, it mean more safer in stable of runing dos program in ros, for a dos program love messing around with the computer hw, at end it will result in bsod in NT, that why ms limit VDM and another thing with VDM is it can not switch the cpu from protected mode to normal mode. with a vitual cpu, this problem are slov and it mean at end any dos program can be run. at end, that why dosbox emulated thuse hw
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Fritscher" michael@fritscher.net To: "ReactOS Development List" ros-dev@reactos.org Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 11:23 AM Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Trying to push ideas (again:) )
Running on 16-bit systems like 286/386/486 in a "ReactOS Essentials" (equivalent to a stripped-down XP) mode I am exprment with a dymatic translator betwin diffent CPU if it goes in the way as I like, it will posible runing any CPU in reactos so long the apps is writen for windows.
386 and 486 are already 32 bit cpus. I don't think porting reactos to 16 bit would be useful, because many structures are for 32 bit numbers. Besides of this, most 8086/286 does only have 1 MB Ram, a few 4 MB (the theoretical maximum is 16 MB for 286)
Porting it to PowerPC or Arm would be much more usefull ;)
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