Hi, ok, sorry to have written to the wrong list... Hubert Figuiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 07.11.01: > According to ArcadePreserv Center <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I would like to add that a DOS port would not be useless and pointless. > > I have many friends which have only one modern computer, which mean that > > the family must timeshare the useage. They have however often an old 486 > > in >their attic. Well, the goal of FreeDOS is to create a 8088 compliant OS. It's really doing quite well, now :-) I personally use it on a 386sx25 notebook with 1 MB of RAM. Well, I can even play Nethack on it ;-) > > If they could use it together with dos to make their wordprocessing it > > would > > be very nice. Yes, at current point, there are WYSIWYG word processing tools for DOS, but none of them are free software.
> You could run it under Linux or BSD :-) Even Win95 runs on a 486. Negative! Linux requires at _absolute_ minimum 4MB RAM, any version of windows is proprietary... Well, I still own a copy of Win3.1 and Works3.0 but have you ever tried to open newer formats with that? Besides, it's not free at all. So, while this may be an option for a single user, it's not for the community. But there's a way of looking at Word files at least, it's called antiword (http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html#DOS). > So, it is not only a "see if it can be done" and "see if I can do it" > thing, > it is in fact also a quite useful thing. Not to mention the usefulness > in the 3rd world, where I believe modern computers are a luxuary. There is also some project sending computers based on FreeDOS into these countries. > > > > BTW: Would a windows 3.1 port be easier ? > > I don't think. Well, _this_ is out of my reach. Nowadays, you either get win32 progs (or Linux, preferrably) or plain DOS. > > Hub Best regards Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can safely ignore anything below this line. @ - - + - - @ - - + - - @ - - + - - @ - - + - - @ ________________________________________________________________ Lotto online tippen! Egal zu welcher Zeit, egal von welchem Ort. Mit dem WEB.DE Lottoservice. http://tippen2.web.de/?x=13 ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
