Hi, I'm resurrecting an old desktop for a "distraction free" environment and I'm wondering whether it is easier or more useful to use Freedos or MS DOS 6.22, which I have the original 3.5" disks for.
The system is a Tandon 386SX, 8mb RAM, 512mb HD, 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives, no USB, no CD-ROM, but does have an ethernet card. With this spec, I'm wondering if the advantages of Freedos (support for big hard disks and RAM etc.) are meaningful on a low power system, and wether or nor it's worth the hassle of trying to install Freedos via floppy (I understand it's primarily designed for CD-ROM installation?). I'm mainly intending to use the system for writing and programming, but also communications programs like Lynx, Telnet and FTP. On that note, I'm not so enamoured with WordPerfect these days, so looking for any suggestions on alternative WP packages. It's primarily for academic writing, so decent support for footnotes, endnotes and tables is useful. I really like the DisplayWrite for DOS interface and features, but I've yet to find a version that exports into a widely used format. All suggestions welcome! Krystal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
