Jim Hall [01.05.2021 23:00]:
> BTW, if anyone is interested in troff (or variants) there's an
> interesting history in Brian Kernighan's book, "Unix: A History and a
> Memoir." It starts on page 98. In brief:
Anyone remotely interested in the history of Unix must read this book.
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Hilsen
Deposite Pirate [29.04.2021 19:20]:
> April 29, 2021 6:32 PM, "geneb" wrote:
>> On the surface of it, he's apparently asking for a "windows experience" in a
>> text mode operating
>> system. DOS isn't a "point and drool your way to fame and fortune" operating
>> system. If he thinks
>> this is
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
>>
E. Auer [08.10.2020 13:48]:
> Harald, thank you for your offer to extract data from my CP/M floppies!
>
> Going through the link list from Rugxulo, I found out that both cpmtools
> and 22DISK offer dozens of possible formats, but to my surprise, none
> of them seemed to work?? However, *AnaDisk*
dmccunney [20.09.2020 01:36]:
> I have feelers out to folks who also have old hardware. I suspect I
> can solve the problem by throwing money at it, and shipping the
> Seagate drives to a contractor who can extract the contents and save
> it to a USB flash drive. Once that's done, the old XT
Mateusz Viste [28/08/2020 16.55]:
>> I would like to some BASIC programming but don't know what to use.
> I recommend FreeBASIC (fbc), it's truly an awesome compiler. It features
> a "quickbasic-compatibility" switch if you prefer to stay with old-style
> basic.
Quite compatible with QBasic,
Random Liegh via Freedos-user [23.05.2020 21:26]:
> I agree with this being a better alternative to bwbasic, of course since
> both are small and open source I'd request that you include both.
Not better (since bwbasic is cross-platform), but an alternative. And
more compatible with old BASIC
Jim Hall [22.05.2020 14:17]:
> As for GW-BASIC, FreeDOS already includes other BASIC interpreters and
> compilers with equivalent or better functionality, so I don't know that
> we need to add GW-BASIC. I'm not a BASIC programmer, so I'm open to
> suggestion on this. There's pros and cons either
dmccunney [04.05.2020 03:52]:
> Have fun. EP was originally written for an 8 bit Atari microcomputer
^
Altair
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Hilsen Harald
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