[BRLTTY] BRLTTY under real Dos
Nicolas Pitre
nico at cam.org
Wed May 3 12:28:58 EDT 2006
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
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