From:	Edevaldo Pereira da Silva <q14792 AT email DOT sps DOT mot DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DJGPP for embedded PC with Flash disk only
Date:	Thu, 01 Apr 1999 09:54:23 -0300
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Andy Fox wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody.
> 
> I am working on a product that has a PC card (actually a PC-104 486DX card)
> in it.
> This will have a BIOS/DOS compatible IDE flash disk in it, and 4MB of DRAM.
> I would like to use DJGPP to develop the code (protected mode, nice & easy
> hardware interfaces above 1MByte etc.), but before I start the steep
> learning curve, I just thought I would ask a very simple question:
> 
> Is there anything that would preclude me from using DJGPP and DPMI in this
> situation?
> 
> The PC104 card has DOS6.2 installed on it's flash disk.
> 
> Thanks in advance, apologies if this question has been asked previously!
> 
> Andy.


	I can't imagine anything that would preclude you of doing so. But, try
to not use virtual memory. Disable it completely if you can. This will
make your system much more reliable and make you flash disk's life
longer.

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