Re: [Freedos-user] re: DOS operating systems
Eric Auer schreef: I hope you use some other OS beyond DOS as well? DOS cannot use the 64bit and extra register support of the Turion (mobile AMD Athlon64) processor nor can it make use of the ability to have more than 4 GB of RAM... And of course DOS is single-tasking, while other operating systems allow you to run many programs simultaneously to get rid of the strong computing powers of your system ;-). Show me a laptop with more than 4GB of memory :) For a DOS GUI, I would recommend GEM. Shane of Shaneland has made a really nice GEM distro. Free GUI with, quite important, quite a few apps available for it as well. Windows has more, sure, but Windows is complex. Still you can get that for free if you use ReactOS as standalone or Wine as inside-Linux way of running Windows apps. Preemptive multitasking is just not DOS, as little as it would be sailing if you equip your sailing ship with a fusion starship drive. Does this GEM support colors? Monochrome GUI is not a nice thing to have. Bernd --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] re: DOS operating systems
Does this GEM support colors? Monochrome GUI is not a nice thing to have. It should soon support 256 colors (although I don't know of any GEM apps that use more than 16). --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] re: DOS operating systems
Well, if the applications don't support more of 16 colors it doesn't have much sense... 2005/11/2, Blair Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does this GEM support colors? Monochrome GUI is not a nice thing to have. It should soon support 256 colors (although I don't know of any GEM apps that use more than 16). --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
