On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 at 03:36, Karen Lewellen <[email protected]> wrote: > > If so, what are you using for browser and playback?
There is no modern browser for DOS -- but more to the point, there never will be. A DOS app can be a maximum of about 620-630k of memory. A modern browser can take approaching 1000× more than that and indeed at least one mainstream modern browser, Google Chrome, no longer supports 32-bit Linux at all. Between the very complex Document Object Model (DOM) of a web page required, and the Javascript interpreter needed to manipulate that, and a JIT compiler for Javascript to run that at a decent speed... fitting it all into 640kB is not possible. If you like the DOS family of OSes, and want to stay in that general family, but for whatever reason you do not want to run MS Windows, have you considered OS/2? It is still alive and can run on modern hardware. The current version is called Blue Lion and is sold by Arca Noae: https://www.arcanoae.com/blue-lion/ It natively supports DOS apps as well as its own OS/2 apps and Windows 3.x apps, so there is a very large selection of (admittedly now quite old) software out there for it. > One example where I would consider running freedos would be on a laptop, > outfitted with native networking with a wireless adapter that I could use > for travel. There is no wireless LAN support for DOS that I know of. If some ancient tools can be made to connect, they won't talk to modern Wifi systems, which have undergone multiple generation changes since the DOS era. > There is no existing Linux system that I could run in this fashion, > because for me personally, there is no existing Linux system providing > the adaptive technology I both desire and require. Can you give us some examples of what you need? -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: [email protected] Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
