Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS as a everyday/common-use system; Pros of making FreeDOS and Windows3 more compatible

Hi, On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Paolo Vincenzo Olivo wrote: > Thank you for your answer Ruxgulo but I think I've been misunderstood in some > parts, where I admit I may not have made myself clear > >> Just get a cheap Chromebook, if you need all these modern niceties. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS as a everyday/common-use system; Pros of making FreeDOS and Windows3 more compatible

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Rugxulo wrote: [SNIP] > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Paolo Vincenzo Olivo > wrote: [SNIP] >> Anyway, as clearly stated on FreeDOS home page, the purposes for ever >> installing it are in fact >> legacy softwares,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS as a everyday/common-use system; Pros of making FreeDOS and Windows3 more compatible

> We can't rest on our laurels. We need to be open to obvious > improvements. This is a high-minded, wise way of talking I hadn't heard in a while. One point to you, deserved (But I'm not talking about stupid multimedia stuff or > anything overkill like that. I'm thinking much more

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS as a everyday/common-use system; Pros of making FreeDOS and Windows3 more compatible

Thank you for your answer Ruxgulo but I think I've been misunderstood in some parts, where I admit I may not have made myself clear > No Javascript support is one obvious omission. But "modern" web (HTML > 5, etc) practically demands Firefox or Chrome anyways. Just get a > cheap Chromebook,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS as a everyday/common-use system; Pros of making FreeDOS and Windows3 more compatible

Hi, Just to add (more) $0.02 On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Paolo Vincenzo Olivo wrote: > Hello there FreeDOS community, > I've been a FreeDOS user for 3 years so far, and I'd like to thank the > developers > for their effort and their amazing job. They've

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS as a everyday/common-use system; Pros of making FreeDOS and Windows3 more compatible

Hi, On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > (sorry everybody about the long answer... The short > answer is "would be nice to have a Wiki page about > situations where WfW 3.11 can be made to run, but I > still think that this has mostly novelty value only)

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS as a everyday/common-use system; Pros of making FreeDOS and Windows3 more compatible

Hi Paolo, (sorry everybody about the long answer... The short answer is "would be nice to have a Wiki page about situations where WfW 3.11 can be made to run, but I still think that this has mostly novelty value only) > I guess people who commonly use Windows, > and don't feel comfortable with

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS as a everyday/common-use system; Pros of making FreeDOS and Windows3 more compatible

Hello there FreeDOS community, I've been a FreeDOS user for 3 years so far, and I'd like to thank the developers for their effort and their amazing job. The reason I first looked out for a free/open source version of DOS, was that, being a retrogamer, I had grown up tired of dosbox and wanted to