8 Jun
2000
8 Jun
'00
2:26 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 05:25:00PM +0200, Hans Franke wrote:
If you'd like to boot DOS 2.11 (my recomendation)
128 K is sufficient
for DOS and most tools. It should be possible to strip it down to run
in as little as ~96 k, but below 64 K not even a complete boot is possible.
DOS 1.X is able to run in 64 K, although it will be hard to find programs
still able to run - after the introduction of DOS 2.0 everybody switched
for the new file I/O (Unix style, without FCBs).
FWIW, PC-DOS V2.0 runs OK in 64 KB. You can't fit much else in there with
it, but it does come up OK.
John Wilson
D Bit