Am 20.05.2012 um 20:15 schrieb dmccunney:
>
> The number of people who still run DOS is a vanishingly small fraction
> of the number of people who use computers. The number who run DOS in
> a virtual machine is a small fraction of that number. The number of
> people trying to run FreeDOS under Virtual Box can probably be counted
> on the fingers of two hands with change left over.
This is not true.
As I wrote in a previous posting, the VirtualBox page in the FreeDOS wiki (1)
became in less than 5 months one of its most popular pages and was viewed
43,894 times. My (old) page about VirtualBox in FreeDOS on my own server (2)
was viewed 3,552 times this year (409 times this month) and my "networked"
FreeDOS image for VirtualBox (3) downloaded 801 times (91 this month), although
it is still FreeDOS 1.1 beta (sorry).
So no. People are really using FreeDOS in VirtualBox.
Of course to the developers of VirtualBox those people are a minority, so known
bugs aren't fixed very fast or not fixed at all.
The question is if those users should be more valuable to the FreeDOS
developers / FreeDOS community.
@Jack
It's great that you added the /N5 switch for VirtualBox users. It was a really
fast reaction. And the anger to be forced by a buggy program to create such a
workaround is completely understandable - and makes your reaction even more
worthy. THANKS!
Ulrich
(1) http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=VirtualBox
(2) http://lazybrowndog.net/freedos/virtualbox/
(3) http://lazybrowndog.net/freedos/virtualbox/FreeDOS_1.1beta-network.zip
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