Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/07/22:20:06
Leath Muller wrote:
> > The kernel sits on top of DOS, and is pretty small (< 64Kb), so you have
> > around 500Kb left in real-mode DOS.
>
> If the kernel is _that_ small, then it should end up pretty close to the
> same size using csdpmi for the memory allocation, virtual memory
> control,
> etc...
There's even smaller real-time kernel available. It's the RTX RM RT
kernel (sorry, don't remember URLs - check Yahoo! in
Computers|OperatingSystems|Real-Time) which takes circa 30 KB of memory.
But the absolute record here is the QNX OS kernel - 10 KB in PROTECTED
MODE!!! How about that?
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