Hallo Herr Kirn Gill II via Freedos-devel, am Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2025 um 23:34 schrieben Sie:
> Isn't this the same argument I made for broken hypervisors? Yes. With the tiny little difference that we have one broken machine, and no broken hypervisors. Tom > -- > Kirn Gill II > Mobile: +1 813-300-2330 <+18133002330> > VoIP: +1 813-704-0420 <+18137040420> > Email: segin2...@gmail.com > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kirn-gill/32/49a/9a6 > On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM tom ehlert via Freedos-devel < > freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> Hallo Herr Alain Mouette via Freedos-devel, >> >> am Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2025 um 21:53 schrieben Sie: >> >> >> >> > Em 27/02/2025 13:08, Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel escreveu: >> >> I don't know how often you use other versions of DOS (like MS or PC or >> DR or EDR or ...) compared to FreeDOS, but a TSR would solve the problem >> for all of them while modifying FreeDOS would only fix FreeDOS. I >> personally prefer MS-DOS and mostly use others (including FreeDOS) just for >> compatibility testing. >> > I have been responsible for a lot of DOS boxes running 24/7 for the las >> > 20+ years (peak was 100, now just a few)... >> >> > FreeDOS is much more stable then MS-DOS due ot: >> > 1) Eric Auer did a nice job flushing files to disk which lowered >> > considerably power failure problems >> How exactly did he "flush to disk"? Other then "I don't cache writes"? >> >> > 2) It is much better then MS-DOS for compatibility with modern machines, >> > specialy big disks and memory >> >> > So I vote for implementing whatever is needed in FreeDOS's kernel. This >> > way it will be more compatible with big disks too >> >> I vote to do nothing about *this particular* machine. It's most likely a >> buggy BIOS/CSM or >> buggy firmware (unlikely, else windows wouldn't work), and not worth >> throwing valuable developer time at. >> >> Just don't execute DOS on this system. >> >> Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
