[BRLTTY] BRLTTY under real Dos

[Samuel Thibault]

Nicolas Pitre, le Wed 03 May 2006 12:08:01 -0400, a écrit :
> I hope no one sane is ever to consider trying to port BRLTTY to the x86 
> 16-bit real mode.

Why not? Brltty is just C code.

> Therefore with a protected mode (32-bit) version you can store it in 
> upper memory above the 640KB mark.

A protected-mode TSR application is not particularly easy to write...
16-bit TSRs are.

> And even then it might simply not be practical.  Better run your DOS 
> applications under dosemu and use standard BRLTTY.

I don't know what use the question was for, but one potential use is for
using DOS+brltty+loadlin as an accessible boot loader.

Samuel