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On 3/31/2015 6:15 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> I installed the dos 7.1 on a 4gig cf chip. It come with a gnu licence but
> belongs to microsoft - strange. It looks alot like freedos ; but I think
> FREEDOS
> is better - more to it. It uses cutemouse and a bunch of Linux stuff not
> native to microso
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:48 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:38 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:09 PM, dmccunney
>> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>
>>> This is OS development 101. Do you think a new OS intended as
>>> a
lol!
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> The download contains a file called killer.exe. Google says this is virus
> that destroy windows system files.
>
> DS
>
>
>
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:58:23 -0400 Corbin Davenport
> writes:
>> I'm afraid not (it's a rather hefty 11MB), but I did u
The download contains a file called killer.exe. Google says this is virus
that destroy windows system files.
DS
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:58:23 -0400 Corbin Davenport
writes:
> I'm afraid not (it's a rather hefty 11MB), but I did upload it to my
> Google
> Drive as a public file. Feel free to ke
Again I respect that others mileage varies.
And your comment about the debian forum generated a laugh. Amen brother!
In no way do I wish to suggest freedos is not a fine system for some. it
is just not a fine system for me.
I have almost 27 years of programs files software and the like invest
I installed the dos 7.1 on a 4gig cf chip. It come with a gnu licence but
belongs to microsoft - strange. It looks alot like freedos ; but I think
FREEDOS
is better - more to it. It uses cutemouse and a bunch of Linux stuff not
native to microsoft. It seems to be a legal hybrid of sorts. I think
th
Hi Karen -
Since I am the one who gave a "testimonial" regarding my success with the
USB drivers, I feel the need to chime in.
> i use dos exclusively daily for all my computing.
> and still sometimes get the sense here that freedos does not take itself
> seriously enough for me to consider it for
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Hi Karen,
>
>> What discouraged me from using freedos was
>> first the "for legacy games use only," suggestion on the site,
>
> That probably was a while ago: Now I would say this is more
> the target audience of dosbox, in particular for
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>
> I think the software NAZI's rarely bother with dos, not worth the effort
> anymore.
Software "national socialists" don't exist, only lawyers (looking for
prey). And it's their (paid) job to go after offenders. Admittedly,
DOS isn't
Hi,
Matej, I respect your opinion, but I don't see how Dennis is correct
at all here.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Matej Horvat
wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 08:38:47 +0200, Rugxulo wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:09 PM, dmccunney
>> wrote:
>>> This is OS development 101. Do you thi
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:38 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:09 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>> This is OS development 101. Do you think a new OS intended as
>> a followup to an existing product throws out the baby with the
>> bath
Hi Karen,
> What discouraged me from using freedos was
> first the "for legacy games use only," suggestion on the site,
That probably was a while ago: Now I would say this is more
the target audience of dosbox, in particular for Windows.
> and second, the lack of attention to native things lik
I think the software NAZI's rarely bother with dos, not worth the effort
anymore.
I think if you own copies of the original cd's it gives you some right to
make
copies of contained software - reasonable use rule I think. I own a lot
of copies
of 95,98 & me and zillions of copies have been destroyed
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 08:38:47 +0200, Rugxulo wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:09 PM, dmccunney
> wrote:
>> This is OS development 101. Do you think a new OS intended as
>> a followup to an existing product throws out the baby with the
>> bathwater and does everything differently, so existing
On USB with DOS, I can read and write a USB stick with FAT32 file system, but
it is treated as a fixed disk. USB stick must be in the port to be recognized,
and if I remove and replace a USB stick, the new one won't be recognized. This
is through the BIOS/UEFI rather than an add-on DOS driver.
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