On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Michael Robinson
wrote:
>> Why are you assuming said DOS system will be accessed by multiple
>> strangers? For things like FreeDOS, there will be a single user who
>> installs it in the first place and runs it after it is. While it's
>> theoretically possible to
A kiosk is a multiple user system, but not necessarily a
simultaneously multiple user system. So DOS will work most likely.
Chances are though, the DOS system files and tools themselves need to be
on read only memory if there is any possibility of a person being at a
command line and making a
At 09:20 AM 1/11/2012, dmccunney wrote:
>I ran DesqView, back in the day. It worked surprisingly well.
>I recall one BBS sysop running four instances of a Wildcat BBS on a
>25mhz AT under DV. He could have 4 nodes connected to four modems and
>operating simultaneously on on machine.
It did indee
Op 11-1-2012 0:58, Ulrich Hansen schreef:
> I have started a VirtualBox HowTo in our FreeDOS wiki.
> It is a sort of installation walkthrough with many pictures.
>
> It can be found here:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Installing_FreeDOS_in_VirtualBox
That looks
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Ralf A. Quint wrote:
> At 07:39 AM 1/11/2012, dmccunney wrote:
>>Please recall that DesqView, DesqViewX, GEM, and Windows through 9.X
>>were precisely GUIs strapped onto a DOS environment.
>
> Just for the record, DesqView is not a GUI, but a text mode
> multi-tas
At 07:39 AM 1/11/2012, dmccunney wrote:
>Please recall that DesqView, DesqViewX, GEM, and Windows through 9.X
>were precisely GUIs strapped onto a DOS environment.
Just for the record, DesqView is not a GUI, but a text mode
multi-tasking/task-switching add-on for DOS and basically an
extension t
At 12:30 AM 1/11/2012, Florian Xaver wrote:
>El 11.01.2012, a las 03:38, Ralf A. Quint escribió:
>
> >> I'd love to have you contribute to a GUI project. There have been
> >> several. The one with the longest history is OpenGEM, but the web site
> >> is now idle (http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/). The
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:36 AM, Michael Robinson
wrote:
> The problems encountered strapping a GUI onto a DOS system are similar
> to the problems that were encountered when object orientation and
> classes were added to C to create C++. C++ is really a hybrid language,
> neither a strictly proc
> Do you have any info what happened to Shane/the OpenGEM project, the
> whole "disappearance" happened a bit quick and starring for several
> years now at the site that proclaims "Something exciting is coming
> soon" is a bit of a drag :-( ...
>
> Ralf
>
IIRC, he became the IT Director or
Since DJGPP is not up-to-date anymore a fresh installation is a pain! (new
versions of the libraries, small fixes, etc, new versions of the compilers ...)
Bye
Florian
El 11.01.2012, a las 12:27, nospam escribió:
>
> I find it tedious to download lots and lots of files from the DJGPP site and
I find it tedious to download lots and lots of files from the DJGPP site and
putting them into the DJGPP directory. In the process you have to make sure
that old packages do not overwrite the files installed by new packages. And
you may have selected the wrong version needed or just missed some
The problems encountered strapping a GUI onto a DOS system are similar
to the problems that were encountered when object orientation and
classes were added to C to create C++. C++ is really a hybrid language,
neither a strictly procedural nor a strictly object oriented language.
Any GUI strapped
El 11.01.2012, a las 03:38, Ralf A. Quint escribió:
>> I'd love to have you contribute to a GUI project. There have been
>> several. The one with the longest history is OpenGEM, but the web site
>> is now idle (http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/). The OpenGEM6 pre-release is
>> the last we heard of this
>
> I don't think that SEAL (regardless under which name and incarnation,
> there were several IIRC) ever got to the point that it was in any
> form "usable". Can't call this promising at all. All they got was
> some nice desktop picture, nothing more...
You are wrong. There weren't many usef
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