Hello everybody, First of all, let me congratulate all of you for all the work done on FreeDOS. It's great. I've just subscribed to the devel mailing list because I would like to contribute, well, as a matter of fact I will not be able to contribute much but I can offer my help with the testing and debugging. I'm a senior software engineer with more than 15 years of programming experience on PCs, however I don't have much time for programming now, sadly. I'm 32 and live in Geneva, Switzerland.
I decided to say hello because of a FAQ saying that FreeDOS can run on an XT, but (quote) "I don't know for a fact that anyone has booted it on an XT for quite a while ... if only because no one probably has one anymore." Well, huh, I've got one and, better than that, I still develop some software on it and for it. Yes, it runs at 4.77 MHz and has only 640 Ko of RAM, with a 20 Mb hard drive and 5"1/4 floppies (oh, I also do have a P4-3GHz, don't worry). So this evening, I decided to try and boot FreeDOS 1.0 on my old friend. And I ran into many troubles, the bottom line being that it did not even boot. I would like to share my experience as well as having your feeling about it. I am ready to contribute to Bugzilla and test as much as needed if this helps to improve FreeDOS. However, as mentioned above, I don't have the time to have a look at the code and contribute more deeply, which I regret. As I don't want to interfere, please let me know if you are interested in this rather funny and enjoyable experiment (even if it failed) :-) Cheers, Edouard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
