Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2013-01-03 Thread Michael Robinson
Dos makes sense for 8/16 bit computers that can't handle multitasking very well. There are plenty of 8/16 bit computers around still, think e-readers probably and other embedded devices that don't need the higher functionality a 32/64 bit machine/multi core machine offers. Dos was a quick and

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2013-01-03 Thread Jim Lemon
On 01/03/2013 12:57 PM, dmccunney wrote: On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Jim Lemonj...@bitwrit.com.au wrote: If there was a Linux kernel in which the user could turn off everything that isn't in DOS, that would be a way out. If you could turn off everything that *isn't* in DOS, you might

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2013-01-03 Thread Mark Littlejohn
Actually I use DOS because I use an antique office package Open Access IV. It works for me, does it's job very nicely and has survived nearly 25 years without a virus etc. I can write a program using the word processor, database and language calls in a quarter of the time it would take on other

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2013-01-03 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:07 AM, Michael Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: Dos makes sense for 8/16 bit computers that can't handle multitasking very well. [MS-based] DOS is exclusively 16-bit, it won't work on 8-bit at all (at least not in traditional sense or any reasonable

Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2013-01-03 Thread Andrew Robins
P.S. Starting from here of course http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeDOS#Memory_management -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2013-01-03 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:20 AM, Jim Lemon j...@bitwrit.com.au wrote: On 01/03/2013 12:57 PM, dmccunney wrote: On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Jim Lemonj...@bitwrit.com.au wrote: If there was a Linux kernel in which the user could turn off everything that isn't in DOS, that would be a way

[Freedos-user] CD-DVD ROM drıve

2013-01-03 Thread TuLithu
Last night I installed FreeDOS on my HP Pavilion g series laptop. Everything seems to work fine, except I can't access my DVD ROM drive. I have spent several hours reading the help files and examining the config.sys and autoexec.bat files, but I can't figure out what the problem is. I figured

Re: [Freedos-user] CD-DVD ROM drıve

2013-01-03 Thread Chris Evans
You need a cd/DVD rom driver that supports your drive Installed in config.sys If you want I can send you some drivers for highspeed driver Let me know.. -Chris Http://digitalatoll.com On Thursday, January 3, 2013, TuLithu wrote: Last night I installed FreeDOS on my HP Pavilion g series

Re: [Freedos-user] CD-DVD ROM drıve

2013-01-03 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 02:14 PM 1/3/2013, TuLithu wrote: Last night I installed FreeDOS on my HP Pavilion g series laptop. Everything seems to work fine, except I can't access my DVD ROM drive. I have spent several hours reading the help files and examining the config.sys and autoexec.bat files, but I can't figure

Re: [Freedos-user] CD-DVD ROM drıve

2013-01-03 Thread Gulsun Eby
Thank you for the responses. Unfortunately, since I have no way to load a driver because of the DVD ROM not working, I guess I am back at square one. That's OK. I guess I could run FreeDOS ın virtualBOX on LINUX. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote: At 02:14

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2013-01-03 Thread Mark Littlejohn
There should also be made a distinction between real time input and real time output and servo loop. If you are capturing timing events you really only need to respond to an event and store a time for later processing. I usually use a microcontroller and write a routine around its interrupts so

[Freedos-user] New Version of DOSUTILS

2013-01-03 Thread wiwa64
I just want to inform the few braves who still use (or even work with) any flavor of DOS, that i just released a new version of my DOSUTILS package. I added a new utility to the package and two others were improved. The new utility INLINE allows to place multi-line data, that is to be fed as

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2013-01-03 Thread john s wolter
It's the clock, just the clock. It's a square wave usually, the old up and down. Pin 19, CLK, on the Intel 8086 DIP When emulating the speed of a 8088, 8086, 80286,... CPUs you need to emulate the Clock cycles -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_...etc... So sticking in NOPs may not work.

Re: [Freedos-user] New Version of DOSUTILS

2013-01-03 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 7:08 PM, wiwa64 wiw...@web.de wrote: The new utility INLINE allows to place multi-line data, that is to be fed as input into another program via stdin, directly within the batchfile from which the program is invoked. Users who are familiar with shell programming under

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2013-01-03 Thread Jim Lemon
On 01/04/2013 04:13 AM, dmccunney wrote: ... Real time simply means guaranteed to respond to an external event within a specified period. What time period is required? I have been able to guarantee millisecond resolution of events to measure the subtle effects on human performance of various