On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:27:37 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Hi Eric,
>> >or parallel link cables (wiring instructions included). > ************* Yes it DOES support printer port, as LapLink. Oop! I miss ... Impressive! >You can install an LFN driver. And p2p stuff is mostly wasting bandwidth. >People are leeching like crazy, far more than they could conceivably USE >(you could say they download 50 hours of music each day...). I think this >should not be the world of FreeDOS. People who call this useful computer >use today will ask us tomorrow why they cannot click on PowderPoint in DOS. The knife/gun is created not for war, depends on who/how to use it. Software distribution such as Linux was becoming more easy because Bit Torrent exist, we don't have to FTP the server and bring down the server again and again. Of course I don't agree to those leeching crazy guys and those "over-smart" users even put DVD images online. I just want to say FreeDOS not going to that way, but don't close the door either. >To make use of long file names, you can then use a DOS version of BASH :-). I think I'm in the position of "normal" user. It's hard for me to even find BASH, COMMAND.COM is fine, just need some improvement. M$ already give have an example, depends on when and whom to did the job >EzNos supports at most 3 parallel connections, I think, and is a single >task. It can run on an 8086 with 5 MHz, too. If you want something real, >any 386 with at least 4 MB, better 16 MB, of RAM can run an Linux Apache >server. A very big part of the WWW today runs Apache. You are comparing >a lighter to a barbeque here. You're right, but EzNos is still good for some small office or home use, just a single floppy to boot up, and real easy to setup. Linux is good, but for "user level" still have a long way to go >So what - the old versions of LAME created MP3, too. Maybe slower and >worse quality, but still... If time matters, better use any multitasking >32 bit OS, then you can do something else while encoding the MP3s. For me: MS=$ Linux=time + skill DOS=time And I've a lot of old mainboard, most of them below 300MHz >A soft-synth is only useful for an OS where programs use drivers for sound. >There are attempts to "steal" audio data from software, with help of protected >mode, but that should be seen as a kludge (e.g. used in VIAFMTSR Adlib/OPL3 >driver for DOS). Apart from that, DOS programs just access hardware directly. But don't you think it's good for simple usage such as demo, LCD-like Panel, jukebox or arcade games. The program greatly upgrade the beeping MIDI to sound-module level sound! And the PAT file is now Open Source (http:// I've an very old version which the timing totally wrong running on FreeDOS, but I'm not giving up to waiting for a new binary. When more and more application and tools work on DOS, more people will participate to develop and improve DOS, now FreeDOS have most of the spotlight! So I think to make it more popular, will help to have more people join force and speed up the development. Thanks for your comment. Rgds, Johnson. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
