FreeDOS 1.2
DOS + Win 3.11 was very fast compared to Windows (9x, XP, 7 and 10), OSX or Linux nowadays and there were lots of good games written for the platform (MOO1, CIV1, Duke Nukem 3D).<p>I read about the problems with Windows 3.11 protected mode, does FreeDOS 1.2 allow you to run Windows 3.11 in 386enh and protected mode?
A certain Jeremy David wrote support for it, and I read that a windows 3 compatible kernel was available in FreeDOS 1.0 under the name Winkernel. It should be used without EMM386 but with Japheth&#x27;s versions of HIMEMX and SHARE, allocating at most 256 MB of RAM to HIMEMEX. With some tweaking of the Windows config, it is possible to use 1 GB, but not more. Do not use protected mode disk drivers.
There is SVGAPatch: a tool to patch svga256.drv to make it VESA compliant so Win 3.11 can be used within Virtualbox. 
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<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kirsle.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;entry&#x2F;nostalgia-for-windows-3-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kirsle.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;entry&#x2F;nostalgia-for-windows-3-1</a><p>Conceivably it could be used to access the internet somewhat with Win32s in combination with Dillo of D+ browser.
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dillo-win.osdn.jp&#x2F;index.en.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dillo-win.osdn.jp&#x2F;index.en.html</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceforge.net&#x2F;projects&#x2F;dplus-browser&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceforge.net&#x2F;projects&#x2F;dplus-browser&#x2F;</a><p>I remember that for DOS semi-multitasking you could use DESQview, does that work with FreeDOS and are there better (more efficient or open source) alternatives?<p>I am asking as you could make a very lean and fast OS, booting form USB, extracting itself to a ramdisk, allocating 500M (with tools, editors and games) and 500M for windows.<p>Perhaps HaikuOS, NT 3.51, Windows ME with KernelEx or the new OS&#x2F;2 5 (ArcaOS), or Win7PE or Win10PE are more capable and similarly faster compared to Ubuntu, Windows7&#x2F;10 or OSX.
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