Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX isn't for everyone...

2020-03-24 Thread Felix Miata
dmccunney composed on 2020-03-24 15:53 (UTC-0400): > Felix Miata wrote: >> I ran a 286 Altos Xenix multiuser in 1988 just fine, Unix-y enough I >> couldn't tell >> any difference from SysV. > With what sort of hardware? Based on the descriptions on

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX isn't for everyone...

2020-03-24 Thread Felix Miata
dmccunney composed on 2020-03-24 21:59 (UTC-0400): > SeaMonkey 2.X couldn't be built static. Please reconcile this statement with the Mozilla folk's representation that every binary app downloadable from mozilla.org, including all SeaMonkey versions, is static built. -- Evolution as taught in

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX isn't for everyone...

2020-03-24 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 8:37 PM Rugxulo wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 12:31 PM dmccunney wrote: > > > > The person who passed it on said [Transmeta Crusoe] was "Slow, slow, SLOW". > > No surprise - it came with WindowsXP SP2, and took *8* minutes to simply > > *boot*, and a lot more to do

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX isn't for everyone...

2020-03-24 Thread Ralf Quint
On 3/24/2020 12:53 PM, dmccunney wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:48 PM Felix Miata wrote: I ran a 286 Altos Xenix multiuser in 1988 just fine, Unix-y enough I couldn't tell any difference from SysV. With what sort of hardware? Xenix, if memory serves, began based on Unix System III and was

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX isn't for everyone...

2020-03-24 Thread andrew fabbro
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 8:52 PM wrote: > Just a thought, some of us have old computers that we want to run freedos > on. Running Linux on a Pentium 4 and trying to run Dosbox on top of that is > going to be pretty have for that machine. Some people aren't grabbing a > multi core modern computer

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX isn't for everyone...

2020-03-24 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 12:31 PM dmccunney wrote: > > The person who passed it on said [Transmeta Crusoe] was "Slow, slow, SLOW". > No surprise - it came with WindowsXP SP2, and took *** minutes to simply > *boot*, and a lot more to do anything once up. I heard that XP was designed to get

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX isn't for everyone...

2020-03-24 Thread Andrew Robins
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 3:30 AM, dmccunney wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:52 PM wrote: > > > >... Puppy Linux is designed for older, less powerful hardware. (A poster > on the Puppy forums described creating a dedicated media server based > on Puppy that ran on an ancient Toshiba laptop

Re: [Freedos-user] Problems network in the installation FreeDOS 1.3 rc2 on virtualbox lubuntu 16.04

2020-03-24 Thread Eric Auer
Hello Everaldo, please do not use screenshot files: The ones you used were too small to read and using larger ones would make your email too big for the list. Instead, copy paste the text shown on screen :-) You can also redirect the output of DOS commands like "tree > mytree.txt" and use the

[Freedos-user] Problems network in the installation FreeDOS 1.3 rc2 on virtualbox lubuntu 16.04

2020-03-24 Thread Everaldo Bernardo Cunha
Hello! People, I installed FreeDOS 1.3 rc2 LiveCD ISO on VirtualBox Lubuntu 16.04 and the installer did all the proccess, but it didsn't configure the network. I looked how the installation is now and I find somes files didn't install ... So, how must I to do the configuration? In attachment, put

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX isn't for everyone...

2020-03-24 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:48 PM Felix Miata wrote: > dmccunney composed on 2020-03-24 13:30 (UTC-0400): > > mich...@robinson-west.com wrote: > > >> Linux won't run on a 286 or XT by the way. > > > *Unix* didn't run on a 286. There were a couple of attempts > > (including one from AT) that died

[Freedos-user] Problems network in the installation FreeDOS 1.3 rc2 on virtualbox lubuntu 16.04

2020-03-24 Thread Everaldo Bernardo Cunha
Hello! People, I installed FreeDOS 1.3 rc2 LiveCD ISO on VirtualBox Lubuntu 16.04 and the installer did all the proccess, but it didsn't configure the network. I looked how the installation is now and I find somes files didn't install ... So, how must I to do the configuration? In attachment, put

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX isn't for everyone...

2020-03-24 Thread geneb
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, Felix Miata wrote: dmccunney composed on 2020-03-24 13:30 (UTC-0400): mich...@robinson-west.com wrote: Linux won't run on a 286 or XT by the way. *Unix* didn't run on a 286. There were a couple of attempts (including one from AT) that died horribly due to lack of

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX isn't for everyone...

2020-03-24 Thread Felix Miata
dmccunney composed on 2020-03-24 13:30 (UTC-0400): > mich...@robinson-west.com wrote: >> Linux won't run on a 286 or XT by the way. > *Unix* didn't run on a 286. There were a couple of attempts > (including one from AT) that died horribly due to lack of HW memory > management. It only became

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX isn't for everyone...

2020-03-24 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:52 PM wrote: > > Just a thought, some of us have old computers that we want to run freedos on. > Running Linux on a Pentium 4 and trying to run Dosbox on top of that is going > to be pretty have for that machine. I run an Android port of DOSbox on an older and less

Re: [Freedos-user] fdnpkg.exe - how does it know where to install the packages to?

2020-03-24 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 24/03/2020 00:05, mich...@robinson-west.com wrote: I think I missed a command.com line in fdauto.bat where it still said C:\... and that this is why fdnpkg.exe installed to the C drive. If I'm wrong, why does fdnpkg.exe install to C:\ when I'm running on a Zip disk mapped to A:\ by the