@TameDOS ist this like „DOSidle“? I found „DOSidle", by Marton Balog, 1998, to reduce CPU load, i.e. also reduce power consumption of the cpu i guess. There is a fix of a mouse bug by „pm386" (https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=43384) : UPDATE Aug 12 2015: There is a new release DOSidle 2.51, which you can find here DOSidle new version 2.50 (fixes mouse problems). Haven’t any experience with such add-ons in DOS-
Is there somebody who happens to know about the functionality (usability/) regarding DOSidle + FreeDos? Should I Autoexec.bat -T h omas > Am 15.04.2021 um 18:40 schrieb JR <h...@iafrica.com>: > > > > On 2021/04/15 18:05, Liam Proven wrote: >> On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 14:17, JR <h...@iafrica.com> wrote: >>> I run DOS under XP with >>> "TAME" to stop 100% CPU usage. >> I am curious -- how? In some sort of VM? MS VirtualPC is a free >> download now... something like that? > I've got the name wrong. It's TameDOS. > Nope, not free. It appears to be still available at $20 from the author > http://www.tamedos.com/tame/tamehome.htm > 100% CPU usage on a notebook is very noisy with the fan running flat out. > >> >>> and then Mark William's COHERENT. >> Ah, that was an amazing OS in its day. So Unix-like, AT&T sent Dennis >> Ritchie himself to the MWC offices to check it wasn't pirated. It >> wasn't. > I didn't know that ;-) Coherent was advertised in BYTE magazine and was very > reasonably priced at the time. It came with and impressive 1200 page plus > printed manual. When I moved to DOS, I think I used Kermit to transfer my > source files from Coherent to a DOS partition. >> >> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.folklore.computers/c/_ZaYeY46eb4/m/5B41Uym6d4QJ >> >> It's FOSS now. >> >> http://www.nesssoftware.com/home/mwc/ >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
