On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:21:35AM +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Fortunately I bought TSPF while Tritus was still selling it, so I > never had to deal with CTC. It runs under DOS, OS/2 and 32-bit > windoze; alas, there is no Linux version. It's much more compatible > with ISPF than SPF/PC.
If something runs under DOS, then there is a chance it will run in DOSBox, a kinda virtual-pc-dos-something emulator. Their aim is to run games, mostly, but I think other software may work, too. The emulator provides a rudimentary DOS-like environment. At least DOS-like environment is easier to emulate than Windows-like one, so after few years of work it should be near perfect :-). There also was DOSemu but I have always had one problem or another when I tried to use it. Many winters ago. It might have improved since then. Of course all those emulators (should) run under Mac, Linux, and what would you like, perhaps Android too. > Yes, I do have FreeDos on my OS/2 machine, but I hardly ever use it. FreeDOS is nice, but it is hard for me to imagine running it natively, i.e. not under some kind of virtual machine (kvm, qemu, and so on). At least nowadays. And the number of CPUs which can boot it is going to shrink dramatically. OTOH, some folks are hardware tinkerers and some old firmware programmators might only work with DOS programs via parallel port etc. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
