For MS-DOS, use a virtual machine under Linux. Oracle's "Virtualbox" will run DOS 6. Virtualbox is free.
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 4:43 PM Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users < emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I'm looking for something like that which can run MS-DOS and has a > contiguous 64K upper memory region free or four 16K regions free to work > with LIM EMS 4.0. The problem I run into with newer hardware is the UMA is > so chunked up with areas reserved for all the built in peripherals, and > disabling them in BIOS usually doesn't free up space in the UMA. > My old ProLight 2000 mill uses old DOS software that only works with EMS > as a place to load gcode. The software must predate the 80386 and they > didn't want to be one of the few programs using the extended memory > capabilities of the 80286, or use something like DOS4GW or another 3rd > party "DOS Extender" to access additional RAM. I've run it off a laptop > booted from a USB 1.44M floppy. Have to use the gcode file splitter utility > that's with the mill software to chunk it into pieces that fit into low > memory after DOS and the PLM2000 software take their parts. The splitter > puts a command at the end of each chunk to load the next chunk. > Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
