Hallo Herr Alain Mouette via Freedos-devel, am Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2025 um 21:53 schrieben Sie:
> Em 27/02/2025 13:08, Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel escreveu: >> I don't know how often you use other versions of DOS (like MS or PC or DR or >> EDR or ...) compared to FreeDOS, but a TSR would solve the problem for all >> of them while modifying FreeDOS would only fix FreeDOS. I personally prefer >> MS-DOS and mostly use others (including FreeDOS) just for compatibility >> testing. > I have been responsible for a lot of DOS boxes running 24/7 for the las > 20+ years (peak was 100, now just a few)... > FreeDOS is much more stable then MS-DOS due ot: > 1) Eric Auer did a nice job flushing files to disk which lowered > considerably power failure problems How exactly did he "flush to disk"? Other then "I don't cache writes"? > 2) It is much better then MS-DOS for compatibility with modern machines, > specialy big disks and memory > So I vote for implementing whatever is needed in FreeDOS's kernel. This > way it will be more compatible with big disks too I vote to do nothing about *this particular* machine. It's most likely a buggy BIOS/CSM or buggy firmware (unlikely, else windows wouldn't work), and not worth throwing valuable developer time at. Just don't execute DOS on this system. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
