On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 at 00:04, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > It's not hard for a virtual machine system to support DOS. As long as > it emulates an Intel CPU with a BIOS, any DOS (FreeDOS and MS-DOS and > DR-DOS) should work. It might emulate all kinds of other things, but > Intel CPU + BIOS is all it needs to run "DOS." That hasn't changed > since the 1990s. > > And as long as VMWare supports DOS guests, then I don't see a need to > say "we don't 'support' VMWare." >
Agreed. It is not necessary for the FreeDOS installer to detect network cards and configure them. It's good to have -- I was very impressed when I saw FreeDOS 1.3 do this automatically -- but it's not something that is _essential_. So long as it works at all, it's good enough. No DOS _needs_ a network card, or a network. It can work at its full potential without one, and without graphics support, and even strictly without XMS or EMS. If it will boot and it can see a virtual hard disk, IMHO, in DOS terms that is "supported". -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
