Re: [Freedos-user] DOS PR question - what LOOKS fancy in DOS?

2006-09-24 Thread Jim Hall
John Hupp wrote: My interest to date in FreeDOS has been as part of a software bundle that I can put on older computers without Windows licenses (and sell them off on eBay). eBay still has the last auction I did on its servers at

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-24 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric schreef: On Sunday 24 September 2006 12:01, you wrote: I ended up now exactly where I expected to encounter the problem: 1) Downloaded VMware Workstation (one of all the propositions) 2) Downloaded fdbasecd.iso 3) Started to create a new VM (thought 1GB should be enough for a DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-24 Thread tomleem
If you can get hold of it, you might be better off using an older version of Virtual Server 2005, ie Microsoft's Virtual PC 2003. I don't think you'll have the same issues with that and Windows XP Home. Hope this helps a little. Regards Chris. From: tomleem [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ReactOS

2006-09-24 Thread Andrew Greenberg
That is, it would not be foolhardy to expect to use Freedos in some actual business applications? I think FreeDOS is used in a surprising amount of business applications, but people don't advertise it very much because DOS isn't 'cool'. We currently use FreeDOS as a RTOS (real time