Hi
I have been mulling over the possibility of using an alternative file
system with FreeDOS.
In case anyone asks what's wrong with the default file system? I
will just say, nothing wrong, but it lacks some features. Extended
attributes, for one.
The LEAN file system
Hi
This topic is not about DOS vs other operating systems, or the fact
that users tend to gradually abandon DOS. It's about the survivability
of DOS vis-a-vis hardware.
The starting point for my reasoning is: what will happen with the
future development of the hardware architectures? So far DOS
Well I would say this about hardware.
I began using dos in 1988, when I first came to computers.
It is now 2012, and I am still using it.
My experience has personally been that people have created ways to use dos
with hardware as it changes, no reason for that to stop any time soon.
I am not
El 10/04/2012 10:07 a.m., Alex escribió:
Hi
This topic is not about DOS vs other operating systems, or the fact
that users tend to gradually abandon DOS. It's about the survivability
of DOS vis-a-vis hardware.
The starting point for my reasoning is: what will happen with the
future
if the hardware chokes on real programming,
someone will make an emulator.
good!
.
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Hi Bernd,
it seems even on modern hardware unpacking FreeCOM
during install may take VERY long, so we need a fix:
- it is good to have source and binary in one zip
- but you can use info-zip's command line options
(-x source/*) to exclude sources from unzip :-)
- a default install does not
actually I would not even OFFER a boot menu item to skip loading the
XMS driver at all: You cannot even boot the install CD / USB on old
pre-XMS PC.
Probably a bad idea for compatibility reasons, unless you offer multiple
choices for which XMS manager to install. E.g., I have a computer
the no-drivers choice, No. 4, is provided because some
programs, such as PLoP, will not load at all unless there
are *no drivers* loaded, at least on my system...
PLoP chokes on any drivers in freedos 1.1, saying:
cannot run under windows in a dos box, in effect.
i kid you not.
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Zbigniew zbigniew2...@gmail.com wrote:
At the time of cheap computers, do we really need multiuser OS? It
was reasonable 20 years ago, when fast machine was really expensive -
but is it still today, when every average user can have his own
computer (and - in
This topic is not about DOS vs other operating systems, or the fact
that users tend to gradually abandon DOS. It's about the survivability
of DOS vis-a-vis hardware ... What will happen with future development
of the hardware architectures?
Cannot answer on all subjects, but re: disk/CD/DVD
Have you tried explicit I=- and X=- commands with
JEMM386/JEMMEX??
I've tried several different JEMM options -- none of them fixed the problem on
that particular computer. I finally just gave up and went to other
alternatives.
Op 10-4-2012 18:21, Eric Auer schreef:
it seems even on modern hardware unpacking FreeCOM
during install may take VERY long, so we need a fix:
This seems to be specific to the old installer (v3.7.8 by Jeremy) I
think, as that unpacks entire packages. Sourcecode modification would be
required
At 01:13 PM 4/10/2012, Jack wrote:
Cannot answer on all subjects, but re: disk/CD/DVD drivers, I am NOT
overly optimistic! Intel/Microsoft want us all to buy into AHCI,
and they may have started ordering mainboard vendors to omit SATA/
IDE logic from their BIOS routines.
Do you have a source
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