[fpc-devel] Multithreading under DOS

[Sven Barth]

On 26.09.2013 19:48, Nikolay Nikolov wrote:
> On 09/26/2013 08:24 PM, Leif Ekblad wrote:
>> DOS extenders are even worse candidates for multitasking than DOS. And
>> if you aim to use 32-bit anyway, I see no reason to use an DOS
>> extender over a real multitasking OS.
> Low resource usage perhaps. How well does Linux run on a 386 with 4 MB
> of RAM? What about 2 MB? :)

See here: 
http://hackaday.com/2011/08/12/installing-linux-on-a-386-laptop/ (with 4 MB)

Please note that 386 support was completely dropped recently from the 
kernel: 
http://www.zdnet.com/good-bye-386-linux-to-drop-support-for-i386-chips-with-next-major-release-7000008772/

Regards,
Sven