[BRLTTY] BRLTTY under real Dos
Samuel Thibault
samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Wed May 3 12:13:59 EDT 2006
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
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