/ Yup... well, technically, I do *have* a 505752K DOS partition,
/just that it's completely empty. One of these days I intend to
/put all my old DOS stuff on it, and configure dosemu again so I
/can run GeoWorks and a few other old DOS favorites again...
/
/ As to actually booting to DOS, I doubt I'll ever do that
/again. I'm completely spoiled by being able to download from
/three to five different places at once, while simultaneously
/compiling a kernel and recording a song.
/
I believe dosemu can run DOS programs from ext2fs, but you might want to retain
the possibility of running from straight DOS. Anybody try to run DOS Arachne
from Linux dosemu?
How can one modem download from more than one place at a time, and what would be
the advantage?
OS/2 can read & write FAT & HPFS, newer versions including eComStation can also
handle JFS (Journaling File System). OS/2 can read ISO 9660 CD-ROMs with
Joliet, using an updated CDFS.IFS, but can't read the long file names on Walnut
Creek Linux CD-ROMs. OS/2 Warp 4 original release couldn't read any long file
names on CD-ROMs.
> also need to be able to run DOS-based mail and news programs.
\ Why?
If you saw Ultimail Lite that came with OS/2 Warp 4, you'd know why! I don't
like to incur the big memory overhead of Netscape if I don't have to; it slows
everything else down. You get more choice of news and mail programs with Linux
and the BSDs than with OS/2. DOS seems to have more graphics programs than OS/2
but not nearly as much as the Unixes. There doesn't seem to be any port of
XFree86 to DOS, and some Unix graphics programs, including GIMP, are being
ported to OS/2.
Now L.D. Best (Subject: That does it!) looks like she might need something
better than DOS, like Linux, FreeBSD or NetBSD?
