On Wed, 1 Dec 2021, Liam Proven wrote:
Fair. For me, I left the IBM reseller that was my first job and moved
to a much smaller company, so I stopped working with a mixture of PC
DOS and MS-DOS and switched to mostly MS-DOS, with a little DR DOS.
Meanwhile I started out with PC DOS 3.2, and
On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 17:40, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> MS-DOS had FC (written in C in 3.x and later) and RAMDRIVE, while IBM had
> COMP (still written in ASM; simpler and not as powerful) and VDISK.
I see -- thanks!
> 5.0 had both.
(!)
> I'm not sure too many people know much about PC DOS
On Wed, 1 Dec 2021, Liam Proven wrote:
On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 02:27, Steve Nickolas wrote:
The division actually happened earlier - after 5.0.
So Wikipedia said. I have not personally seen PC DOS after 4 but
before 6.3, so I can't say from direct personal knowledge.
I have a boxed copy of
On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 02:27, Steve Nickolas wrote:
>
> The division actually happened earlier - after 5.0.
So Wikipedia said. I have not personally seen PC DOS after 4 but
before 6.3, so I can't say from direct personal knowledge.
> From 3.2 to the
> second issue of 5.0 (and in fact the
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, Liam Proven wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 22:35, Steve Nickolas wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, Deposite Pirate wrote:
PC-DOS is also strictly better than MS-DOS. Don't know of a valid
reason for anyone to bother with the latter anymore.
For the most part, PC DOS *is*
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 22:35, Steve Nickolas wrote:
>
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, Deposite Pirate wrote:
>
> > PC-DOS is also strictly better than MS-DOS. Don't know of a valid
> > reason for anyone to bother with the latter anymore.
>
> For the most part, PC DOS *is* MS-DOS.
Well, I agree with both
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, Deposite Pirate wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:31:00 +0100
Liam Proven wrote:
Lest anyone accuse me of spamming: this isn't mine; I make nothing
from it; I do not work for IBM or any part of it. I'm just sharing
info.
PC-DOS is also strictly better than MS-DOS. Don't
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:31:00 +0100
Liam Proven wrote:
> Lest anyone accuse me of spamming: this isn't mine; I make nothing
> from it; I do not work for IBM or any part of it. I'm just sharing
> info.
>
PC-DOS is also strictly better than MS-DOS. Don't know of a valid
reason for anyone to bother
Good day Mark Olesen,
A centralized location is very serious to me as a developer. Actually,
I bought an MS-DOS 7.1 disk on ebay because things kept moving too
much in FreeDOS. It's not stable at all.
Well, I think this problem is not really specific to FreeDOS. In fact I
expect that the
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 16:08, Ivan Ivanov wrote:
> Not to mention that nobody cares about the pyracy of ancient software
> which is older than your mom ;-)
My mum is _considerably_ older than electronic computers of any form.
I'm older than microprocessors myself. :-รพ
Look, there is no such
> > On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 09:24, Mark Olesen wrote:
> >
> > I bought an MS-DOS 7.1 disk on ebay
>
> IBM PC DOS 7.1 is a free download from IBM. It is part of the Server Guide
> Scripting Toolkit.
> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-serverguide-scripting-toolkit-dos-edition-version-1307
Not
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 09:24, Mark Olesen wrote:
>
> I bought an MS-DOS 7.1 disk on ebay
IBM PC DOS 7.1 is a free download from IBM. It is part of the Server
Guide Scripting Toolkit.
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-serverguide-scripting-toolkit-dos-edition-version-1307
--
Liam Proven ~
Hi,
> On Nov 29, 2021, at 11:10 PM, Mark Olesen wrote:
>
> A centralized location is very serious to me as a developer.
I agree.
Originally, the Orphanage was only a semi-official place I used to prepare and
maintain packages that would be uploaded to the Repository. It took rather a
long
A centralized location is very serious to me as a developer. Actually,
I bought an MS-DOS 7.1 disk on ebay because things kept moving too
much in FreeDOS. It's not stable at all.
On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 5:55 PM Jerome Shidel wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> This a heads up notification. (Mostly)
>
> With
Hi All,
This a heads up notification. (Mostly)
With the inclusion of every package that is provided with FreeDOS and for some
additional reasons, the FreeDOS Orphanage has moved and been renamed.
It could be called FreeDOS on GitLab, FreeDOS Projects or just plan FreeDOS, I
went with the
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