Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2013-01-08 Thread Andrew Robins
Thanks Rugxulo for such a considered - and considerable - reply! You have given me much to work on regarding FreeDOS memory management in - dunno - Pentium-vintage hardware, but I haven't been able to extricate myself from real world issues to digest/work through it all yet. You've reminded me

Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2013-01-08 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Andrew Robins arob...@fastmail.fm wrote: You've reminded me that I have to review my FDCONFIG and AUTOEXEC more thoroughly - perhaps my earlier meddling in those configs solved problems with some games (e.g., Aladdin - see

Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2013-01-08 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Though I'm mostly a noob at Nethack because it's so complicated, heh, so I'm not sure if they're more patient or not. The question with Nethack isn't whether you'll win: it's what novel and interesting way you'll find to get

Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2013-01-08 Thread Andrew Robins
Hmmm yes there are seems to be an infinite number of ways you can be dispatched in Nethack that my kids approve of. My son likes to die by repeatedly kicking a wall or a boulder (??? don't ask), being eaten by a black pudding is also memorable - the random gender/species allocation also gets a

Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2013-01-08 Thread Andrew Robins
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Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2013-01-08 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Andrew Robins arob...@fastmail.fm wrote: ...why do I only spot my typos after I post, and not in the 3 re-reads I make befpre pressing 'send'?? ^^^ Like this one? :-) Don't feel bad. I am in the final stages of producing the souvenir book for an

Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2013-01-07 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, Sorry for delay, not sure if this is what you wanted to hear or not, oh well! On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Andrew Robins arob...@fastmail.fm wrote: Coincidentally I've been reading older posts of yours on other threads/forums re memory management (DOS/32a) and your involvement with

Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2013-01-03 Thread Andrew Robins
P.S. Starting from here of course http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeDOS#Memory_management -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your

Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2013-01-02 Thread Andrew Robins
Hey Rugxulo! Coincidentally I've been reading older posts of yours on other threads/forums re memory management (DOS/32a) and your involvement with the Stone Soup dungeon crawler, amongst other things - many thanks for your encouragement, but this is not an experiment I will give up so easily,

Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2012-12-31 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Andrew Robins arob...@fastmail.fm wrote: I was the gent Dennis McC mentions having Puppy Linux running in an old machine in the thread Install basic Puppy on a computer with 16 Mb RAM. Sad that nobody cares for old machines anymore. There are way more of

Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2012-12-29 Thread David Kerber
On 12/28/2012 2:30 PM, dmccunney wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:23 AM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote: XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb. I'll assume you've done so and will take your word for it, but I'm assuming a flexible definition of run. How long did it take to boot? What could

Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2012-12-29 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:09 PM, David Kerber dker...@warrenrogersassociates.com wrote: On 12/28/2012 2:30 PM, dmccunney wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:23 AM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote: XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb. I'll assume you've done so and will take your word for it,

Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2012-12-29 Thread David Kerber
On 12/29/2012 1:31 PM, dmccunney wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:09 PM, David Kerber dker...@warrenrogersassociates.com wrote: On 12/28/2012 2:30 PM, dmccunney wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:23 AM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote: XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb. I'll assume you've

Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2012-12-29 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:36 PM, David Kerber dker...@warrenrogersassociates.com wrote: On 12/29/2012 1:31 PM, dmccunney wrote: We sell an industrial data collection machine based on XP that runs in about 80MB of allocated memory. We turn off the server service, themes and a couple others,

Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2012-12-29 Thread peasthope
On 12/29/2012 dmccunney wrote: ... a chap on the Puppy Linux forums got a working Puppy installation in 16MB RAM. For the following, TUI and GUI interfaces are in use. Heap shows less than 4 MB in use. No malicious software ever reported in an Oberon system. Regards, ... Peter E.

Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2012-12-29 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:33 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: On 12/29/2012 dmccunney wrote: ... a chap on the Puppy Linux forums got a working Puppy installation in 16MB RAM. For the following, TUI and GUI interfaces are in use. Heap shows less than 4 MB in use. No malicious software ever

[Freedos-user] old machines

2012-12-28 Thread kurt godel
XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb. -- Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - 350+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft

Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2012-12-28 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:23 AM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote: XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb. I'll assume you've done so and will take your word for it, but I'm assuming a flexible definition of run. How long did it take to boot? What could you do under it once it had? __ Dennis