Hello all, Currently SvarDOS uses the FreeCOM shell as its command.com intepreter. FreeCOM is nice and all, but quite memory-hungry. Its XMS-swapping capability mitigates this in part, but pre-386 machines do not have XMS. This is the main reason that led me to starting a dedicated command interpreter for SvarDOS. I work on this since over a month now, and should be able to release a "preview" version before the end of this week. It is named SvarCOM, and its main goal is to be tiny, so it can run on an 8086 machine with 256K of RAM still leaving much memory to applications (in such setup, FreeCOM consumes about 30% of memory, which is hardly acceptable). SvarCOM's resident size is under 2K. More information here: https://osdn.net/projects/svardos/svn/view/svarcom/trunk/svarcom.txt?view=markup https://osdn.net/projects/svardos/svn/view/svarcom/trunk/freecom.txt?view=markup Of course SvarCOM won't replace FreeCOM right away. I plan to include it first as an alternative package, and only once it is thoroughly battle tested and no obvious bugs are left, it may become the default SvarDOS shell. The functional preview release is too be published very soon. Stay tuned. :) Mateusz
