Yeah. If you absolutely want to develop software for bare-metal FreeDOS,
you probably want to do it on compatible hardware. That concerns network
cards, VESA and ISA sound cards mostly. As soon as you set foot on a PCI
sound card or newer, you're in Windows land. Going back to DOS from this
point is not impossible, but it is painful.
>$2700 price tag
I'm sorry, I think HP is under a cyber attack. Clearly someone is using
XSS on their website to get prices of real estate, cryptocurrency or
Apple products.
Best regards,
Michał
W dniu 01.12.2021 o 05:34, dmccunney pisze:
On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 8:01 PM richardkolacz...@hotmail.com
<richardkolacz...@hotmail.com> wrote:
I am new to trying to setup FreeDOS as bare-metal configuration to use instead
of Windows 10 for programs I am writing.
Why on Earth do you want to do *that*?
I notice that HP computer company has FreeDOS 3.0 as an option for Available
Operating Systems. Is this anything to do with this forum? Any advantages for
me to use this instead of RC1.5 version etc.
HP's spec sheet is *wrong.* There *is* no FreeDOS 3.0. FreeDOS
current release is 1.3. If you go the HP_'s top level site and search
for FreeDOS 3.0, it will find nothing.
And this is not a machine you want to try to set up FreeDOS to run
from the bare metal on. Too much of the hardware is simply not
supported by any form of DOS. DOS stopped being sold and supported
long before some of it existed, and it uses UEFI, not a BIOS, so
getting DOS to boot on it will be a real challenge.
You haven't specified what sort of software you want to develop, but
unless you are dedicated Old Skool, who wants to develop on a pure DOS
PC using only development tools available when DOS was current, you
are better served to get a decent Win10 Pro machine with current
development toolchains, and compile to 808X.binaries than can run
under DOS and run DOS in emulation.
If I wanted to do this sort of thing, I'd start with a Win10 desktop,
not a laptop. The one I'm using at the moment is a refurb
ex-corporate workstation that came with a quad cone Intel i5 cpu 2
356ghx, with a built in turbo mode up to 3.9 ghz, 16GB of RAM, Intel
HD 4600 graphics, and Win10 Pro on a 256GB SSD, It cont *one tenth*
of the price for the laptop in the specs.
If you absolutely must run DOS on the bare metal, look at the links
for new gear posted earlier, or look around on someplace like eBay for
old PCVs that were designed to run DOS.
Buy the HP laptop advertised, and you will spend a lot of money on a
machine that cannot be used for what you want to do.
______
Dennis
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