On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 3/19/2014 5:53 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote: >> On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Ralf Quint wrote: >> >>> The advantage of GEM however is that it can execute pretty much any >>> (Free)DOS program, so not only GUI programs, while microwindows seems to >>> support only specifically created programs. >> Its other advantage is it'll work on anything down to even a Tandy 1000 or >> other XT-class machine. Most of these other GUI systems need a 386. > Sorry, for me it is always imperative that DOS runs on anything below a > 386... ;-)
That's my point. Some DOS devs seem to act like either XTs and ATs don't exist, or DOS doesn't matter outside of an emulated environment on Linux. I use DOS daily on an IBM 5160, which runs an IRC client - which my tests suggest ought to run on as little as a 5150 with 256K RAM and MS-DOS 2.0, even supporting UTF-8 translation, so far as can be done with CP437. I will back the old beast until it's dead, along with the Apple //e in my bedroom. -uso. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
