Hi there,
root escribió:
Oops - i forgot that Linux is going to label me as 'root' by default! Anyway... I'm surprised that it is so uncommon to run FD on an old PC. IMHO it seems ridiculous to install FreeDOS on your P4 side-by-side with Windows XP like so many other people do. I mean what DOS software is going to run properly on a 3Ghz CPU? Besides, what else are you going to do with your old PC's? They would bog down to a crawl even on early versions of Linux or FreeBSD, but FreeDOS is perfect.
I disagree. FreeDOS is not "suited for old machines", but "suited for running DOS16/DOS32 code", as well as you can use WindowsXP to run your Win32 code and Linux to run your Linux code. Have you ever tried to run DOOM or HERETIC in a WinXP dosbox? In my testings it doesn't work (it gets too slow, it's not playable). So I can switch to FreeDOS to run this code.
Aitor
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