Re: [Freedos-user] Poll and ideas compressed filesystem

2009-01-17 Thread Ray Davison
Eric Auer wrote: Ages ago there where some discussions about DOSzilla (Mozilla Firefox for DOS) but the project was never released and is dead. Firefox for DOS would be a killer application, pretty cool. I remember the suggestion coming in from time to time but I also remember the insane

Re: [Freedos-user] Poll and ideas compressed filesystem

2009-01-17 Thread Travis Siegel
On Jan 17, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Ray Davison wrote: You may have overlooked one dependency, not of the functional type you listed but an add-on necessary for a browser to be usable today: Flash. I disagree. Flash may be everywhere, but I'd hardly call it an essential browser component. I

Re: [Freedos-user] Poll and ideas compressed filesystem

2009-01-17 Thread Ray Davison
Travis Siegel wrote: there's very little that I can't access due to lack of flash support. Keep looking. It is getting to be more all the time. And it is content, not just adds. And some sites that worked fine with version 5 apparently had nothing better to do and upgraded to later

[Freedos-user] Purpose of dos...

2009-01-17 Thread Michael Robinson
I like dos when I have an old computer and some old games that work under dos. Running Windows on a 486 is a pain in general. Even a low end Pentium these days is slow. As far as web browsing and dos, isn't dos susceptible to almost every single virus on the planet? Another thing, some