Re: [ros-dev] Trying to push ideas (again:) )

[Magnus Olsen]

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(a)fritscher.net>
To: "ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev(a)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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