At 01:13 PM 4/10/2012, Jack wrote:
>Cannot answer on all subjects, but re: disk/CD/DVD drivers, I am NOT
>overly optimistic! Intel/Microsoft want us all to "buy into" AHCI,
>and they may have started "ordering" mainboard vendors to omit SATA/
>IDE logic from their BIOS routines.
Do you have a so
Op 10-4-2012 18:21, Eric Auer schreef:
> it seems even on modern hardware unpacking FreeCOM
> during install may take VERY long, so we need a fix:
This seems to be specific to the old installer (v3.7.8 by Jeremy) I
think, as that unpacks entire packages. Sourcecode modification would be
required
> Have you tried explicit "I=-" and "X=-" commands with
> JEMM386/JEMMEX??
I've tried several different JEMM options -- none of them fixed the problem on
that particular computer. I finally just gave up and went to other
alternatives.
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>> actually I would not even OFFER a boot menu item to skip loading the
>> XMS driver at all: You cannot even boot the install CD / USB on old
>> pre-XMS PC.
>
> Probably a bad idea for compatibility reasons, unless you offer multiple
> choices for which XMS manager to install. E.g., I have a c
> This topic is not about DOS vs other operating systems, or the fact
> that users tend to gradually abandon DOS. It's about the survivability
> of DOS vis-a-vis hardware ... What will happen with future development
> of the hardware architectures?
Cannot answer on all subjects, but re: disk/CD/DV
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Zbigniew wrote:
> At the time of cheap computers, do we really need "multiuser" OS? It
> was reasonable 20 years ago, when fast machine was really expensive -
> but is it still today, when every average user can have his own
> computer (and - in fact - has several
the "no-drivers" choice, No. 4, is provided because some
programs, such as PLoP, will not load at all unless there
are *no drivers* loaded, at least on my system...
PLoP chokes on any drivers in freedos 1.1, saying:
"cannot run under windows in a dos box", in effect.
i kid you not.
> actually I would not even OFFER a boot menu item to skip loading the
> XMS driver at all: You cannot even boot the install CD / USB on old
> pre-XMS PC.
Probably a bad idea for compatibility reasons, unless you offer multiple
choices for which XMS manager to install. E.g., I have a computer wh
Hi Bernd,
it seems even on modern hardware unpacking FreeCOM
during install may take VERY long, so we need a fix:
- it is good to have source and binary in one zip
- but you can use info-zip's command line options
(-x source/*) to exclude sources from unzip :-)
- a default install does not n
if the hardware chokes on real programming,
someone will make an emulator.
good!
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El 10/04/2012 10:07 a.m., Alex escribió:
> Hi
>
> This topic is not about DOS vs other operating systems, or the fact
> that users tend to gradually abandon DOS. It's about the survivability
> of DOS vis-a-vis hardware.
> The starting point for my reasoning is: what will happen with the
> future de
Well I would say this about hardware.
I began using dos in 1988, when I first came to computers.
It is now 2012, and I am still using it.
My experience has personally been that people have created ways to use dos
with hardware as it changes, no reason for that to stop any time soon.
I am not talki
Hi
This topic is not about DOS vs other operating systems, or the fact
that users tend to gradually abandon DOS. It's about the survivability
of DOS vis-a-vis hardware.
The starting point for my reasoning is: what will happen with the
future development of the hardware architectures? So far DOS ha
Hi
I have been mulling over the possibility of using an alternative file
system with FreeDOS.
In case anyone asks "what's wrong with the default file system?" I
will just say, nothing "wrong", but it lacks some features. Extended
attributes, for one.
The LEAN file system (http://freedos-32.sourcef
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