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

2011-09-18 Thread Garrison Ricketson
community is bad.  Losing the place where a lot of the programmers hang out is even worse. Mike -- Message: 4 Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:10:45 -0700 From: Michael C. Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Heads up: DOS ain't dead forum

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

2011-09-18 Thread Garrison Ricketson
I just saw the post that, he is not going to close the DOS ain't dead forum, http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=10561  Thats nice to know,   I still would be interested in knowing how well a DOS server can connect to my site,..and any new members are welcome. Thanks from Garry  

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

2011-09-14 Thread Zbigniew
2011/9/14, Michael C. Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com: [..] One interesting option on say a quad core system is to have the 32 bit OS partition the memory, the monitor, the hard disk, and the cpu cores so you can have multiple concurrent 16 bit Freedos instances. Something similar have

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

2011-09-14 Thread Michael B. Brutman
On 9/14/2011 6:14 AM, Zbigniew wrote: Most probably you can run on your multicore machine concurrent sessions of DOSBOX (or DOSEMU). modern hardware can emulate older hardware. Now you have a clean means of supporting modern hardware for people using old DOS applications. Want your multi

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

2011-09-14 Thread Alain Mouette
Em 14-09-2011 08:14, Zbigniew escreveu: But, actually, why you want another DOSBOX to be created? You've got already DOSBOX and DOSEMU... it's not enough? Well, it is not really satisfactory. DosBox does not have packet driver for networking and Dosemu is not getting any updates ant it

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

2011-09-14 Thread Robert Riebisch
Dear all, You have probably noticed, that I have received a lot of public feedback (plus a few private mails) on my announcement to close this forum. Thanks for that! I didn't know, that this forum is such an important part of the DOS community. Today I have also received a //large// donation

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

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,