Re: [Freedos-user] Interesting comment by Walter Bright

2022-01-29 Thread TK Chia
Hello Louis, hello Mercury 13, >> He claims "The DMC++ compiler is far and away the best C++ compiler on DOS." >> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30127615 Interesting he doesn't mention that Digital Mars is his own company. "Digital Mars C/C++ is Boost licensed." and "DMC still gets

Re: [Freedos-user] Interesting comment by Walter Bright

2022-01-29 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Interesting he doesn't mention that Digital Mars is his own company. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, January 29th, 2022 at 11:37 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > He claims "The DMC++ compiler is far and away the best C++

[Freedos-user] Interesting comment by Walter Bright

2022-01-29 Thread Louis Santillan
He claims "The DMC++ compiler is far and away the best C++ compiler on DOS." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30127615 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Lilo, GRUB etc.

2022-01-29 Thread Björn Morell
I haven't tried bootmanager but a few others they all had trouble with DrDos lilo was the only one (can be used without linux as well as GRUB) tha could, I have linux because I want to se what can be done with ths old 486 :) Den 2022-01-29 kl. 02:21, skrev Björn Morell: Den 2022-01-28 kl.

Re: [Freedos-user] Lilo, GRUB etc.

2022-01-29 Thread Björn Morell
Yes that works with fdisk and xfdisk but not fun to do everytime you want to change OS and the CF memories  have are not big 1 Gb 2 x 2GB and one 4gb in three slot on back of puter so easy to change :) About LiLo, this line activate on partitio and hides the other: change automatic

Re: [Freedos-user] Lilo, GRUB etc.

2022-01-29 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Travis, > You can have up to 4 primary partitions on an hd, there's no need for an > extended partition at all. That way, you only need to make the > partition you want to boot the active partition. This may remove the > need to have a linux install on the machine at all, (unless of course >

Re: [Freedos-user] Lilo, GRUB etc.

2022-01-29 Thread Travis Siegel
You can have up to 4 primary partitions on an hd, there's no need for an extended partition at all.  That way, you only need to make the partition you want to boot the active partition.  This may remove the need to have a linux install on the machine at all, (unless of course you want one).