Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:34 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: No, many compilers make it totally transparent to the end user. So you don't even have to write any non-portable code (usually). And this goes

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size

2015-03-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
I see a subject line of No subject; I must have forgotten to copy the intended subject line. Going back to 2001, I used Enhanced Editor (EPM) in OS/2 Warp 4, but was forced off this editor cold-turkey when the system crashed sometime during the single-digit days of April 2001. CHKDSK,

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-17 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: What do you run as your production OS? I'm willing to bet it's not a flavor of DOS. Linux (Kubuntu [Ubuntu/Debian derivatives) is my primary OS, but FreeDOS is my secondary OS followed by Windows 7 on one machine only

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-17 Thread Don Flowers
What do you run as your production OS? I'm willing to bet it's not a flavor of DOS. Linux (Kubuntu [Ubuntu/Debian derivatives) is my primary OS, but FreeDOS is my secondary OS followed by Windows 7 on one machine only because I recently acquired an HP Elite 8000 for under $100 with W7

[Freedos-user] new uide version? details?

2015-03-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, looking at http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14140 there is a recent version of Jack's UIDE and other drivers at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ellis/drivers-2015-03-05.zip and even newer, from today, in dropbox on

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-17 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:23 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:34 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: No, many compilers make it totally transparent to the end user. So you don't even

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:06 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: There is still potential use for DOS in the embedded space, but I expect that is dropping as HW becomes more powerful and cheaper. Embedded systems are increasingly built around 32 bit ARM CPUs, where DOS is not