[Freedos-user] Heads up: DOS ain't dead forum is closing

2011-09-13 Thread Michael B. Brutman
Here is the link to the announcement: http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=10488 To me this is a serious problem - losing a piece of the DOS community is bad. Losing the place where a lot of the programmers hang out is even worse. Mike

Re: [Freedos-user] Heads up: DOS ain't dead forum is closing

2011-09-13 Thread Michael C. Robinson
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 19:00 -0500, Michael B. Brutman wrote: Here is the link to the announcement: http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=10488 To me this is a serious problem - losing a piece of the DOS community is bad. Losing the place where a lot of the programmers

Re: [Freedos-user] Heads up: DOS ain't dead forum is closing

2011-09-13 Thread Zbigniew
2011/9/14, Michael C. Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com: [..] I'd say that Freedos has it's uses, but without active development on a variant that can take advantage of multiple cores and modern hardware, there are probably a dwindling number of uses for it. Without hardware protection and

Re: [Freedos-user] Heads up: DOS ain't dead forum is closing

2011-09-13 Thread Michael C. Robinson
On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 01:00 +, Zbigniew wrote: 2011/9/14, Michael C. Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com: [..] I'd say that Freedos has it's uses, but without active development on a variant that can take advantage of multiple cores and modern hardware, there are probably a dwindling

[Freedos-user] Usefulness of DOS (Was: Re: Heads up: DOS ain't dead forum is closing

2011-09-13 Thread Michael B. Brutman
On 9/13/2011 7:10 PM, Michael C. Robinson wrote: Look at it this way, it is extremely hard to support modern hardware in a DOS style environment because DOS allowed application programs to use hardware directly. Jim Hall has said himself that he has limited interest in the GUI end and most

Re: [Freedos-user] Heads up: DOS ain't dead forum is closing

2011-09-13 Thread Marco Achury
Would be great to keep the forum archive, at least for read-only so people ca nsearch answers to old questions, this is an important knowledge base. El 13/09/2011 07:30 p.m., Michael B. Brutman escribió: Here is the link to the announcement:

Re: [Freedos-user] Heads up: DOS ain't dead forum is closing

2011-09-13 Thread Jim Hall
I emailed Robert off-list to see if I might move it to freedos.org. I'd like to see his forum continue in some way. On Sep 13, 2011 9:53 PM, Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com wrote: Would be great to keep the forum archive, at least for read-only so people ca nsearch answers to old questions,