It's a Celeron 2.4GHz with, I think 1GB of RAM. Some integrated Intel
video. It's a cheap e-machines about 4-5 years old.
On Jan 18, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Dennis Wade wrote:
Cort,
What's the hardware config for the machine that's running XP
Pro (CPU type/speed, etc)?
Dennis
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Cort Buffington <c...@lawrence-ks.org
> wrote:
> Oh yeah, I keep a small FAT16 partition on the machine that I run
the RSS
> from and store files to. FreeDOS boots up, I change drives and run
all of my
> junk from there... Now, if I had to use a USB-serial adapter,
purple dragons
> would most likely arise. I've not dug into any of that support
from the
> FreeDOS folks yet.
> Here's the config:
> Main Operating system is WinXP Pro. Small partition that's FAT16.
I can move
> files in and out of the FAT16 partition from WinXP. When I need to
run the
> ancient stuff, pop in the FreeDOS live CD, boot up, CD to the FAT16
> partition (it doesn't even see the NTFS partition) and away I go.
It's
> worked out well for me, but of course, it won't work for everyone.
My
> experiments have been limited to old Motorola RSS.
> Before this I went to huge lengths to try and get real DOS to boot
off a
> small partition, etc. Something always didn't work. Serial
drivers, drive
> geometries, etc. Emulators... same story. Once I hit this
combination, it
> did everything I needed it to, so I've been stable here since last
winter.
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Dennis L. Wade
KG6ZI
Carmichael, CA
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Cort Buffington
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