From: Dennis Fenton <dwf...@gmail.com> Thanks to everyone on the FreeDOS list who tried to help me. I learned a few things. After careful consideration I decided to go in a different direction. I installed MS-DOS 7.10. It is now running smoothly on my 486 laptop. I had to set up the SCSI drives by writing a few lines into autoexec.bat and one into config.sys. Happy computing.
On 25/03/2017, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: >> >> I disagree about FreeDOS being "not ready yet" or "no advantage to MS >> DOS". > > If you already have the original gold standard of DOSes, i.e. MS-DOS > (which was widely tested and hugely popular, by far the most > ubiquitous DOS), then you don't urgently "need" any other DOS clone at > all, period. > > Various DOS clones exist, and they all have minor advantages, but > overall they work the same (no extra APIs offered, no utilizing newer > advanced cpu features). For common DOS software (and loadable > drivers), they all behave effectively the same (more or less) on any > decent DOS kernel. > > Reasons not to use MS-DOS? It's unsupported and proprietary and harder to > find. > Reasons not to use FreeDOS? You just want to run the exact same > software that already runs perfectly on your current MS-DOS install. > > Heck, apparently there are still people using TAWK, which is > (apparently) proprietary and long dead. One guy was complaining that > GAWK (aka, GPL) still doesn't 100% equal TAWK features despite being > 20 years newer. Sound familiar? Old habits die hard. > > (In hindsight, it's best to not write proprietary, non-standard, > unportable software at all, if you have a choice. Although nothing > lasts forever, not even standards, it does certainly help to try to be > portable/cross-platform from the start.) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- Internet Rex 2.29 * Origin: capcity2.synchro.net - 502/875-8938 (276:10/901) --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux ListGate 1.3 * Capitol City Online - Frankfort, KY - telnet://capitolcityonline.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
