I was fortunate enough for my early years to be in the DOS era (albeit near its
end) and I still remember the tiny pang of sadness upon reading that Microsoft
was phasing out the venerable platform.
My first computer was an IBM PC/XT with DOS 3.something, which was a
hand-me-down from my uncle
Apr 15, 2021 1:10:25 PM tom ehlert :
>you probably meant 'OS architecture' (not CPU).
Nope, I meant CPU. You start out with an unprotected CPU architecture like the
8086. The OS is basically just a set of hardware access libraries that
applications can use or not as they wish (as they have
Alvah Whealton
> (roll your own excuses)
Off topic slightly, but I have installed a windows-like distro on
several people's computers, because they were used to windows, but
were worried about viruses, scammers, There are times I think, if
they could just use UNIX or more on topic DOS, they
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 12:04 PM Liam Proven wrote:
>
> Partly because OS/2 failed, and MS cheated DR out of its fair share of
> the market, we never got the multitasking relatives of DOS we could
> have had in the 1980s. Instead, we got a very heavyweight inefficient
> series of ones in the
Etcher has a validation step also, which I find reassuring.
There is a linerar relationship between the length of the source code
and the number of bugs, so it is probably not quite as bad as X1000.
Perhaps X100.
/Tomas
On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 18:02:51 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> Balena Etcher is
> I will note that Windows 95 *could* use DOS drivers. I/O
> performance suffered horribly since DOS drivers weren't thread safe,
> but there was a copy of DOS in the system VM for this purpose, even
> if it had nothing to do under normal circumstances.
> But to some degree this is a
I basically agree with what you write, but
> Remember that in effect MS-DOS was an unlicensed copy of Digital
> Research's CP/M and particularly CP/M-86.
that is simply not true. to start this sentence with 'Remember'
as in 'as everyone knows' is bullshit conspiracy tactics.
Tom
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 7:58 AM Thomas Desi wrote:
>
> Hi John,
> thanks for your experience account and software list.
> I am intrigued - as »collecting« word processors/text editors in the "quest
> for the best« - I managed to find
> the following.
>
Liam Proven [15.04.2021 16:34]:
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 14:49, Jerome Shidel wrote:
>>
>> A while back, I was looking for a distro that still actively supported
>> 32-bit hardware. Most mainstream distros have
>> moved to 64-bit only. However, out of the ones I’ve tried that still do
>>
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 6:16 PM Adam Nielsen via Freedos-user
wrote:
>[..]
> As to the original question, while I only use DOS for nostalgia
> reasons, I think it makes an excellent teaching tool for learning how
> modern computers work. It's especially useful for people who wish to
> run
On 2021/04/15 18:05, Liam Proven wrote:
On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 14:17, JR wrote:
I run DOS under XP with
"TAME" to stop 100% CPU usage.
I am curious -- how? In some sort of VM? MS VirtualPC is a free
download now... something like that?
I've got the name wrong. It's TameDOS.
Nope, not
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:04 AM Liam Proven wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 01:16, Adam Nielsen via Freedos-user
> wrote:
> >
> > Have you written down your tips and tricks for this anywhere? I find
> > these sorts of things interesting to read, mostly for nostalgia
> > reasons - as in
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:04 AM Liam Proven wrote:
>[..]
> Ha! Drive letters most definitely did _not_ start with DOS.
>
> Remember that in effect MS-DOS was an unlicensed copy of Digital
> Research's CP/M and particularly CP/M-86. When the IBM PC was
> launched, IBM offered a choice of 3 OSes:
On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 14:58, Thomas Desi wrote:
>
> Hi John,
> thanks for your experience account and software list.
> I am intrigued - as »collecting« word processors/text editors in the "quest
> for the best« - I managed to find
> the following.
>
On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 14:17, JR wrote:
> I run DOS under XP with
> "TAME" to stop 100% CPU usage.
I am curious -- how? In some sort of VM? MS VirtualPC is a free
download now... something like that?
> and then Mark William's COHERENT.
Ah, that was an amazing OS in its day. So Unix-like, AT
On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 01:16, Adam Nielsen via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Have you written down your tips and tricks for this anywhere? I find
> these sorts of things interesting to read, mostly for nostalgia
> reasons - as in finally learning about things that mystified me when I
> was younger.
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 8:58 AM Thomas Desi wrote:
>
> Hi John,
> thanks for your experience account and software list.
> I am intrigued - as »collecting« word processors/text editors in the "quest
> for the best« - I managed to find
> the following.
>
On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 14:49, Jerome Shidel wrote:
>
> A while back, I was looking for a distro that still actively supported 32-bit
> hardware. Most mainstream distros have
> moved to 64-bit only. However, out of the ones I’ve tried that still do
> 32-bit, most seem sluggish at best.
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 01:15:30PM +, Deposite Pirate wrote:
> The mainstream is the domain of the followers, those who don't have a clue.
The mainstream is a source of new hardware and software -- whether you like
it, or you don't
--
regards,
Zbigniew
April 15, 2021 3:10 PM, "ZB" wrote:
> Yes, there is. When new software is created only by hobbyists -- no longer
> by companies -- and also new hardware is created only as hobby thing, not
> mass-manufactured by any company, not sold in the shops when there are no
> new device drivers created
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 06:17:15PM +, Deposite Pirate wrote:
> Because there is no such thing as a "retro" or "ancient" computer.
> That wording is programmed obsolescence propaganda.
Yes, there is. When new software is created only by hobbyists -- no longer
by companies -- and also new
Hi, following recommandations on linux: I have used »Knoppix« and found it a
clever »live« version:
http://www.knoppix.org/
regards, Thomas
> On Thu,20210415- week15, at 14:48, Jerome Shidel wrote:
>
> I primarily use openSUSE and CentOS.
>
> But for a Live CD linux, I rec
English 48.9MB 1
> On Thu,20210415- week15, at 13:59, JR wrote:
>
> SP - Sprint - Borland's Word Processor - Produce Postscript files which are
> converted to PDF's. Used for all documentation, letters and quotations.
___
Fre
I primarily use openSUSE and CentOS.
But for a Live CD linux, I recommend checking out one that isn’t even in the
top 100 on the distrowatch list.
A while back, I was looking for a distro that still actively supported 32-bit
hardware. Most mainstream distros have
moved to 64-bit only.
Hi All
I am 66 years old and have been developing microprocessor based products
for over 35 years and use DOS 90% of the time. I run DOS under XP with
"TAME" to stop 100% CPU usage. The XP PC is on my network but remains
invisible to the Internet. A MikroTik router has been setup to
Hei, Thomas:
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 05:54:35PM +0200, Thomas Desi wrote:
thanks, Tomas, I will go the path you suggest. Any particular Linux flavor you
suggest for this?
(I would go for a „comand line interface“ only.)
You could use any Live CD (or USB) Linux distro, preferably one that
Hi Felix,
The "usual distro" of the day would be Ubuntu, with
MINT being a spin-off and with lightweight variants
such as Xubuntu or Lubuntu which default to install
less heavy graphical things than the normal Ubuntu.
MATE also is just yet another variant.
https://distrowatch.com/ has a
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