I find that your MS dos 7.1 has been doing a little better than FREEDOS. Jemmex sometimes hangs up. Corel made great DOS software. I use their Qpro to do my taxes. I fill in the blanks and it calclates my tax.
cheers DS On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:49:08 -0400 (EDT) Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> writes: > Granted I am not commenting on the exact post, too much to locate it > > exactly. > still, speaking only for myself, I have continued to build upon and > find > dos solutions without having to change operating systems for almost > 30 > years now. My choice to think first about solutions instead of > thinking I > could not advance has yet to fail me. > I am surprised on a list dedicated to a Dos program at how often I > read > people suggest going to use something else laughs. > I cannot speak to other people's computing, but is not that why we > call them personal computers in the first place? > Kare > > > On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Rugxulo wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 3:58 PM, dmccunney > <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Dale E Sterner > <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote: > >> > >>> I installed win 7 on a laptop to see what it could do but not to > use it. > >>> I installed software that I bought to see what it would do on > win 7. > >>> A lot of of message boxes came up giving me 24 hours to reactive > >>> or it would shut down forever. > >> > >> Did those messages come from Win7 or the software you installed? > > > > Can't you use a RC (release candidate) for a few months? Or is > that > > not supported any longer? > > > >>> I left the test software on being affraid that if I removed it, > it would > >>> do it again. Win 7 is now on my junk software list. > > > > In fairness, Win7 doesn't have a lot of life left, so it's not a > good > > long-term solution. (Vista very recently died, so no more updates > or > > fixes.) > > > >> You got DOS and DOS apps in the old days, got them to where you > >> wanted, and stopped. If what you have does what you need, > splendid. > >> If it doesn't, you are looking at stepping beyond DOS. That will > mean > >> either a flavor of Windows or a flavor of Linux. Either way, > there's > >> a learning curve you're stuck with, and you need to learn more > about > >> and better understand what your options are. > > > > I can't help but wonder if a simple Chromebook (from Best Buy, > etc.) > > would fit the bill for him (or me or others). But without QEMU or > > similar by default, it's probably less useful. Google probably > thinks > > emulation would be overkill for the "light" tasks that Chromebooks > > support. You can "probably" install a full Ubuntu (instead of > default > > ChromeOS), but I'm not sure of the potential tradeoffs there > (battery > > life?). > > > > A lot of issues with old DOS software have to do with printing, as > one > > guy on BTTR recently mentioned needing. Not sure what is perfectly > > ideal here (VDosPlus??). BTW, QEMU 2.9.0 was just released today > (but > > I'm unaware of any relevant changes for us). > > > > Another long shot would be DOS emulation in the browser via > > Javascript. Normally I would shun that for being too buggy or > slow, > > but there are TONS of Javascript emulators. It's shocking > actually, > > and some are amazingly good (and network-aware), e.g. OpenRISC. Of > > course, DOS is not high priority, and copy.sh's V86 is still too > > buggy, but we can dream, can't we? ;-) > > > >> Proceeding without knowledge is a good way to shoot yourself in > *both* feet. > > > > Shooting your foot off? 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