On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Zbigniew zbigniew2...@gmail.com wrote:
At the time of cheap computers, do we really need multiuser OS? It
was reasonable 20 years ago, when fast machine was really expensive -
but is it still today, when every average user can have his own
computer (and - in
Op 8-4-2012 8:17, Michael Robinson schreef:
Actually, I wish someone would release a Windows 3.1 driver that can
get my ATI Rage 128, XPERT 2000, card to output 256 colors. For that
matter, how hard would it be to make a Windows like graphical user
interface that can run Windows 3.1
Bernd Blaauw wrote:
Actually, I wish someone would release a Windows 3.1 driver that can
get my ATI Rage 128, XPERT 2000, card to output 256 colors. For that
matter, how hard would it be to make a Windows like graphical user
interface that can run Windows 3.1 software?
There should be
Windows 3.11 and Windows 9x seem to be the closest thing to a 32 bit DOS
environment that I know of. I agree that creating a 32 bit dos would
be awkward. Heck, 20 bit memory addressing is awkward, isn't it?
If you need to run dos games or want to run a Wordprocessor like
Wordperfect on an old
At 03:15 AM 4/7/2012, Alex wrote:
In the recent threads there have been many mentions to the fact that
FreeDOS is only 16bit (of course, that is what it is meant to be)
and that it is out of touch with the modern computing world.
You do realize that it is kind of 'out of touch with the modern
At 04:19 AM 4/7/2012, Zbigniew wrote:
I was wondering what would it take to upgrade FreeDOS to 32bit,
whether it would be worth and whether we would have the human
resources.
32bit user programs tend to be available already in the form of
protected mode software, using one of the
El 07/04/2012 01:02 p.m., Ralf A. Quint escribió:
At 03:15 AM 4/7/2012, Alex wrote:
In the recent threads there have been many mentions to the fact that
FreeDOS is only 16bit (of course, that is what it is meant to be)
and that it is out of touch with the modern computing world.
Check
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com wrote:
Check Kolibri OS, is very nice 32 bits, simple,
ligth, GUI, boot from floppy...
The sole thing is missing there is a DOS
emulator so we can run our beloved DOS
apps.
Kolibri OS has a DOS emulator: Dosbox.
At 11:39 AM 4/7/2012, Marco Achury wrote:
Check Kolibri OS, is very nice 32 bits, simple,
ligth, GUI, boot from floppy...
The sole thing is missing there is a DOS
emulator so we can run our beloved DOS
apps.
So what CAN you run on that, beside playing Minesweeper?
Ralf
Hi,
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote:
At 11:39 AM 4/7/2012, Marco Achury wrote:
Check Kolibri OS, is very nice 32 bits, simple,
ligth, GUI, boot from floppy...
The sole thing is missing there is a DOS
emulator so we can run our beloved DOS
apps.
So what CAN
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