Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's LinuxWare 1.0 MS-DOS Loader

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Sat Sep 13 2008 - 19:35:01 EST



On Sunday 2008-09-07 23:38, jmerkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>I am pleased to announce the release of Merkey's LinuxWare, an MS-DOS (or
>DR-DOS) loader that allows you to compile a Linux kernel as an MS-DOS
>Executable, boot and load Linux from MS-DOS (while DOS stays resident).
>
>This in essence is exactly the same as old Legacy Netware, and in fact, I
>wrote a linker that does what the old NetWare custom linker did when it
>compiled the NetWare kernel and linked it as a DOS Application. Linux
>works
>just like it does normally, except you can quit Linux and exit back to DOS.

So, just another UML architecture ;-)

But how much memory does it need? Raw Linux wants at least 5 MB.
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