I probably am that guy. I couldn't post in groups on FB for a couple of days. and I am itching to do something. LOL.
Thanks for the links... As soon as I find a linux distro that I like that works on the laptop I will start looking at them in more detail. I think it would be fun to write something that looks like Windows 3.11 maybe even be able to run apps written for it. DESQview/X could run both if I could get something going that I have always thought that if xserver and a wm/desktop could be ported from linux to freedos that were small enough, then perhaps others would port apps as well. beyond the standard minefield, wordpad etc clones the other "desktops" like seal, opengem. etc. with those they never seemed to catch on, and most of them barely function when I run them. xvesa, wxwidgets, nano-x / microxwindows etc I don't really know how all of the linux windowing system works yet. And really the last time I messed with linux, it was zipslack on jaz drives was the thing. I even have a copy of dragonlinux (the linux that installed on a dos partition not a different partition) I still have a bunch of books in the closet for programming windows 3.11 and dos. Never did much win 95 came out shortly (like a couple of years) after I got started. I'll find something simpler freedos related to cut my dos programmer teeth on. Probably... :) Adam On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 6:24 AM Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 at 15:18, usul <usul.the.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Why? cause I always get asked... > > Ah, you are the same person who asked on the Facebook FreeDOS group? > > > Because I want to code some stuff for windows 3.11 last time I did I was > working in VB 3 lol, > > run XAppeal and DESQview/X 2.1 and cause if they can do it see If I can > port a minimal xserver to FreeDos for fun. And I really don't want to do > any of that in a VM. > > DESQview/X _is_ a minimal X server. > > There were other X servers for DOS, e.g. > > > https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/freedos-user/thread/4f0b8ad3.7050...@gmail.com/ > > http://www.linuxmisc.com/4-linux/54d11736a319f7ae.htm > > https://techmonitor.ai/technology/ms_dos_x_server_releases_from_hummingbird > > The DEC PATHWORKS client for DOS also included an X server. > > > http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/decnet/pathworks_DOS/AA-PAF5C-TK_Pathworks_for_DOS_Overview_V4.1_Aug91.pdf > > You might be able to find a download of that out there somewhere. I > think it was free if you owned the PATHWORKS server. > > -- > Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com > Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven > IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 > Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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