My primary interest in FreeDOS was both in sustainable computing
and "edutainment" for primary-shool age children. That is, using
classic, award-winning DOS games freely available from the Web on
ancient laptops (e.g., 48mb max RAM, pre-USB vintage) to provide
a living example of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. In that vein I
anticipate replacing the dying and clunky old hard-drives for SD
cards on a 44-pin IDE adapter for better performance and improved
efficiency. I imagine that the recent improvements with FreeDOS'
EIDE would facilitate a hardware upgrade like that - am I
understanding that correctly, please?
As a non-programmer I don't have much inclination to push the
FreeDOS envelope, and in some ways I think that if many in the
community have "dead-ended" goals like mine, then perhaps FreeDOS
will inevitably follow other technologies into the past. From my
"outsider's" perspective I've been idly thinking of ways to
bridge the old technologies with current demands, to help FreeDOS
avoid this fate. Probably EVERYONE on the forum is way ahead of
me in this- I wonder how practical it would be to continue
actively fostering projects like "tcl for DOS"
([1]http://wiki.tcl.tk/10257), GTK+ etc if it helps interest in
learning programming (e.g.,
[2]http://www.pa-mcclamrock.com/icebox.html) AND maintains
interest in, and relevance of, FreeDOS such that it can run the
latest software written in those languages?
- while "maintaining the rage" against the materialistic
mentality the larger software companies have conned us into
believing,
Thanks
References
1. http://wiki.tcl.tk/10257
2. http://www.pa-mcclamrock.com/icebox.html
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