Hi Chema,
I haven't could to take a look at 32 bits and preemptive multitask DOS
versions, because they are very expensive:
> Another subject, what about DOS GUI? Seal is dead, also BreadBox
> Ensemble GEOS, so nowadays there isn't any project to develop a modern
> GUI for DOS. Windows 3.xx is good, but it has the problem of not
As I see it, this is asking the big questions; calling to account the
whole history of where DOS came from, where it went next, and why we
ended up with Windows.
DOS comes from the era where programs had a start and an end. Everything
was real-mode and single task. That's why it's "nice" in the context of
your opening statement where you say you fully understand it, but not
Windows 95 onwards. As the complexity increases, computers become more
like humans, more flexible, but less reliable.
There were all kinds of reasons Microsoft moved towards Windows;
1. Disparate GUIs you had to license each with their own quirks
2. Non-centralized printing driver model (and every other driver!)
3. Reliance on conventional memory
4. Crazy Expanded and Extended memory managers
5. Lack of log on and file system security
6. Lack of decent multi-tasking
7. Questionable support for prot-mode
Windows addressed those things and made it so you could still run most
DOS apps in a DOS box, but without crashing the whole system if they
went wrong. Even under FreeDOS, a crash usually means you have to reboot
because the kernel crashes too.
My computer is a Compaq M2000 Amd Turion 64 without 3 1/2 unit disk,
only DVD unit, so I'm having many problems to install them because
they use boot disks.
You may be able to boot from a USB memory stick. Most boot disks can be
sent to a CD-ROM in bootable floppy emulation mode too, either 1.44 or 2.88.
> FreeDOS is easy in that sense. But I tried to
install the FreeDOS 0.9 Beta Enhaced Disk and it gave me some
problems.
What kind of problems?
Also the Atapi cd-rom driver included (the alpha version) is
very slow to load!
There are some definite problems with the CD driver, you may want to try
VIDE-CDD.SYS
--
Gerry Hickman (London UK)
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