Hi,
On Sun, 26 Dec 2021 at 16:28, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2021 at 05:06, Jon Brase wrote:
>
> > So if they lost the entire DOS-kernel Windows source tree sometime after
> the release of XP, the reason they're not releasing sources for Win 3.x/9x
> may be that said sources no longer
Hello Tom,
I mostly agree with your arguments. However...
On Sun, 26 Dec 2021 at 01:42, tom ehlert wrote:
> however DesqView, GEM and Windows 3.x are certainly multitasking systems
> running on top of DOS. that doesn't make DOS a multitaskig system.
>
Why isn't multitasking just another featur
On 12/26/2021 12:29 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:
There seems to be some population of newer or obscure BIOSes that will
misreport IDE drives and BIOS booted HDD formatted USB drives as being
non fixed disks which FD FDISK requires to be able to interact with them.
This isn't "obscure" at all i
I was able to test and MS DOS 6.22 is able to see and format the IDE DOM
drive much like MS DOS 7. So, I haven't looked at what FD FDISK is doing
differently, and it's likely a relatively small population that is affected
by this.
There seems to be some population of newer or obscure BIOSes that
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2021 at 06:00, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > I would like to connect to the Internet using FreeDOS, but I haven't found
> > a compatible packet driver.
> > Main purpose in connecting to the Internet from FreeDOS would be to prove
> > it can be done.
> Define "connecting
My problem is that I sit down wanting to write a chapter or two, and the
ideas are in my head, (no, really!) but then I'll accidentally fire up
YouTube or even worse, Kick Off 2 Online. Once that happens, the chances of
getting any work done are reduced to virtually zero!
On Sun, 26 Dec 2021, 16:2
Dear John:
I'm guessing that I'm the only one who isn't interested in connecting to
the Internet using freedos. I wouldn't have a problem with others doing
it,but for me it would be yet another distraction. 😀
I think of the Internet as a bag of vulnerabilities! I don't need my
FreeDOS PC con
On Sun, 26 Dec 2021 at 06:00, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>
> I would like to connect to the Internet using FreeDOS, but I haven't found a
> compatible packet driver.
>
> Main purpose in connecting to the Internet from FreeDOS would be to prove it
> can be done.
Define "connecting to the Internet". I
On Sun, 26 Dec 2021 at 05:06, Jon Brase wrote:
>
> First, I've heard rumors (possibly true, possibly just people trying to make
> MS look incompetent) that MS actually lost the source code to some
> unspecified legacy version of Windows at some point (has to be legacy because
> if it had been a
On 12/25/2021 11:47 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
from John Vella:
I would like to connect to the Internet using FreeDOS, but I haven't
found a compatible packet driver.
Main purpose in connecting to the Internet from FreeDOS would be to prove it
can be done.
Obviously it *can* be done. As men
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