On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Bob Schwier <schwepes2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Is there a repository for eight bit DOS and utilities?
I think you mean "16 bit". 8 bit is usually used to refer to predecessor micros running things like CP/M. Technically, the 8088 CPU DOS used 20 bit addressing, with a total address space of 1MB. The PC reserved memory over 640KB for the system, resulting in the infamous 640KB RAM limit, and various convolut4ed methods of getting around it. There are an assortment of places you can still get old DOS software. A lot of open source code is collected in the FreeDOS repository, at http://www.freedos.org/software/ Other useful DOS sites include: Klaus Meinhard's 4DOS Info site, primarily devoted to the 4DOS COMMAND.COM replacement bundled with FreeDOS, but with links to other DOS sites http://www.4dos.info/ Doctor DOS Betamax, an attempt at a comprehensive DOS information and link site http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/DOS-Head.html Free Software for DOS - An archived version of a site originally created by Richard Green, and subsequently taken over and expanded by the late Steve Adelewitz. http://www.bttr-software.de/freesoft/ Free Software for DOS - After Steve's death, Richard Green resurrected his original site http://reimagery.com/fsfd/index.htm There are an assortment of other collections of old DOS software out there, and Google is your friend. (A lot is of questionable value now, as it was originally issued as shareware, but can no longer be registered to get full working copies.) Old DOS software still runs in a console window in the virtual DOS session under Windows through Win XP. (and Win7 if you have a 3w2 bit copy of it.) IT will not run on current 64 bit machines with 64 bit versions of Windows, because support was dropped for 16 bit applications. To run them, you need to run a virtual machine like Virtual Box, and run the 16 bit apps in it. . ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
