Hi John,
AbiWord requires at least 16 Megabytes of RAM. With that and a
stripped down Linux with the gtk-only abiword you *might* get somthing
usable.
I can't think of any of the current developers who would be interested in
doing a dos port.
Cheers
Martin
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, John H. Raines, Jr. wrote:
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> I would like to add that a DOS port would not be useless and pointless. I
> have many friends which have only one modern computer, which mean that the
> family must timeshare the useage. They have however often an old 486 in
> their attic.
> If they could use it together with dos to make their wordprocessing it
> would
> be very nice.
>
> So, it is not only a "see if it can be done" and "see if I can do it"
> thing,
> it is in fact also a quite useful thing. Not to mention the usefulness in
> the 3rd world, where I believe modern computers are a luxuary.
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> I don't know if a port to DOS is very practical for a GUI intensive application like
>AbiWord. However, in relation to your point, you may want to go to www.freedos.org
>which is developing a GPL version of DOS. Although the current offering is beta 7,
>or something like that, the offering is quite mature having been in development for
>years. In addition, they have tons of links to various DOS programs that are
>available for free (download, etc.). One of the stated purposes of FreeDOS is to
>provide an OS for older hardware (there are other uses of DOS also). Hopefully you
>can something useful there for reviving an old computer.
>
> Regards,
> J. Raines
>
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