Excerpt from Eric Auer: > Hi Karen,
> > What discouraged me from using freedos was > > first the "for legacy games use only," suggestion on the site, > That probably was a while ago: Now I would say this is more > the target audience of dosbox, in particular for Windows. > > and second, the lack of attention to native things like USB and > > networking. > A classic for networking is the realtek rtl8139 chipset: > If you find no DOS driver for your new network chip, you > can always plug a PCI network card with that classic chip. > When some modern (gigabit-) network chip is not supported > in DOS, all DOS versions are affected, not only FreeDOS. Many modern motherboards come with PCIE but no PCI, but I believe one could find a DOS-packet-driver-compatible rtl8139 Ethernet. Otherwise, many motherboards have the capability to boot from the network; also there are pxe and gpxe packages, also pxelinux, gpxelinux and lpxelinux in Syslinux package. So conceivably one could play diskless and boot FreeDOS or other OS from the network and still access local disks. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
