Hi,
I'm with Kirn on this one. I think people have a wrong idea what
people use FreeDOS for, if at all. First of all, I think that the
assumption that there's a mahoosive community out there might be a wee
bit optimistic. It's probably rather modest, as not too many people
these days use DOS for a
On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 at 10:29, Danilo Pecher via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> The best solution would be three disks:
>
> BaseCD - no bigger than 300MB, only basic tools
>
> ApplicationCD - Editors, Gemes, Utilities - the lot
>
> DeveloperCD
I agree with this, FWIW.
(Personally I would also rate xNix
Hi,
> Honestly, I'd prefer a 3-tier split, actually. The Base CD should be
> somewhere around 300MB max.
Is it really a good idea for a medium, which supports ~700 MB of data, to
restrict that to 300 MB? Considering one has to „burn“ the media, I favour
burning one disk instead of two or three.
Hallo Herr Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel,
am Donnerstag, 5. Oktober 2023 um 02:50 schrieben Sie:
> On 10/3/2023 11:30 AM, Michael Brutman via Freedos-devel wrote:
>> There is no point in punishing everybody by shipping tools that most >
>> people don't use. You can probably count all of the acti
On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, Liam Proven via Freedos-devel wrote:
On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 at 10:29, Danilo Pecher via Freedos-devel
wrote:
The best solution would be three disks:
BaseCD - no bigger than 300MB, only basic tools
ApplicationCD - Editors, Gemes, Utilities - the lot
DeveloperCD
I agree wit
Steve said:
> I can't see what would need to be on base to make it more than about 20
> MB? And even that's pushing it hard.
>
> Maybe because I'm measuring by PC DOS 2000, which came on 6 floppies.
>
The FreeDOS distribution has a "LiveCD" component that allows users to
boot the CD. This include
On 10/4/2023 10:45 PM, Kirn Gill via Freedos-devel wrote:
I think you're blinded by DJGPP. At no point did I argue for keeping
THAT mess in... or gcc-ia16.
For the record, my reply was in response to Michael Brutman, not to you
Rlaf
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On 10/5/2023 4:44 AM, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel wrote:
Hallo Herr Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel,
am Donnerstag, 5. Oktober 2023 um 02:50 schrieben Sie:
On 10/3/2023 11:30 AM, Michael Brutman via Freedos-devel wrote:
There is no point in punishing everybody by shipping tools that most > peop
You both can be right. I think there is a reasonable split here:
[1] Smaller languages (BASIC, Pascal?) basically fall in the same class as
scripting languages and are useful to have available.
[2] Huge developer environments make more sense on a more capable operating
system where you cross comp