[BRLTTY] BRLTTY under real Dos

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> 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.

There are probably plenty of occurences all around where an int is 
assumed to be 32 bits wide.

> 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.

Well... for such a use I'd probably investigate linking BRLTTY directly 
with grub instead.  That'd be much more powerful and wouldn't require 
DOS at all.


Nicolas