Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 20:08:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT dilu DOT ml DOT org>
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Subject: Re: BIG suggestion for Opendos Features
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On Wed, 28 May 1997, randir wrote:

> > None of this is particularly hard... Adding the minor changes for the
> > optimisations for the ASM for the above isn't difficult, and changing the
> > "Target" on the C compilations is trivial.  Having it autodetect on startup
> > which kernal to load is the tricker part :)
> 
> 	Remeber you are either going to have to multi-stage this entire
> 	process or scrunch this all into one segment.. (thats all the
> 	PC Bios loads.  This ofcourse takes up more memory, makes booting
> 	a lot slower, and isn't all that useful at times..

Or maybe simply choose at installation? :-)

Pierre Phaneuf

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