Der List: Very good topic, and not that OT. > Yes, rebooting is extremely frustrating. So use DOSEMU. It seems to > work well and is constantly being refined. Mine's V1.0.2-1. Runs > Wordstar, oldish orcad, Xtree, Pictview.... I haven't cracked port usage > yet, but no doubt there's a way.
Our comment on all this is that OS/2 is the all round winner!. James has been using it for years, and claims that it is - a/ The interface is object oriented, useful and consistent. b/ It not only runs odd dos programs, but allows them access to your large drives. You can specify allsorts of details, such as direct access to ports, different autoexec.bat programs, and specify drivers in a window that are specific to the session. James has a train Control program that has been in use for 10 years, written in DOS. It uses very odd video modes, and takes direct control of commports, and hooks the 18.2Hz clock timer. It works perfectly under OS/2 in a full screen window, not at all under Windows. c/ As it has access to OS/2's resources, it allows use of the LAN. d/ If you cant get drivers for OS/2, you might for DOS, and that works too. e/ It runs Win 3.1 natively f/ It has a 'wine' for Win 95 stuff (dont know if its as good as Linux wine, tho ) g/ In a heteregenous network, with floppy traffic as well, it appears that the OS/2 machine never gets virused while it's associates do. h/ I use DOS, Win 3.1, Win 95, Win NT 4, Linux 5 - 7, and am familiar with Win2000 & Win XP - Try running Dos on those and see where you get ! James (who took over this answer half way through in excitement)
