Tax time; my dos Qpro macros will be adding up my incomes so I can pay the man. Improved tech makes things better; just ask Sony. Broadband use made the hacks possible. My dial up is so slow it takes a half hour to download a virus, plenty of time to hit stop.
DS On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 13:35:20 -0500 dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 12/16/2014 4:01 PM, dmccunney wrote: > > > >>> DOS is not dead but people need to treat DOS as DOS, not as a > second > >>> coming of Linux... > >> > >> The fundamental issue for DOS is exactly what you *do* with it, > and > >> *why* you might use DOS in preference to something else like > Linux. > >> The fact that something *can* run DOS doesn't necessarily mean > it > >> *should*. > > > > Works the other way around as well. Just because you can get basic > web > > browsing features or other uses of the Internet on (Free)DOS, > doesn't > > mean you should either... > > Precisely. I don't even try. > > In my case, the question of "Why use DOS?" is mostly "for fun, and > to > run a few ancient DOS apps I still use." The machine that runs > FreeDOS is largely a testbed to see what performance I can wring out > of limited hardware. It more-or-less runs Win2K (but *not* XP) and > a > couple of flavors of Linux, and FreeDOS. Win2K and Linux plod > along. > FreeDOS flies on it. > > But I *don't* try to surf the web from it, in any OS. It's simply > too > slow, even with a CAT5 connection to a port on my router. I also > don't attempt to watch YouTube. Audio is okay, but video is a > series > of still pictures. The machine simply isn't powerful enough to do > such things acceptably. > > My desktop is a refurb Dell unit, with a quad-core Xeon CPU at > 2.4ghz, > 8GB RAM, and boots from a 240GB SSD, with an ATI video card with a > gig > of video RAM. It multi-boots Win 7 Pro and Ubuntu 14.04, nad has a > CAT5 connection to my router, which connects to a 100mbit feed from > my > ISP. It's a pleasure to use. Things like web surfing and YouTube > are > done on it. > > I can even run the few old DOS apps on it, using the vDOS fork of > the > open source DOSBox emulator. vDOS is Windows specifric and intended > to run character mode business apps. (There is extensive discussion > on the WordStar list on how to configure it to run WS 7 on 64 bit > Win > 7 and Win 8.1 machines.) > > Folks complaining about the problems involved in trying to surf the > web and view video from DOS are frankly wasting their time. It > might > be theoretically possible to enhance DOS support for such things, > but > it would be a significant development effort. Who would do it, and > why would they bother? No one is going to *pay* to have it done, > and > there are more rewarding things to code for fun. > > > Ralf > ______ > Dennis > https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server > from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and > Dashboards > with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & > more > Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, > FREE > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clk trk > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ____________________________________________________________ > Find the Perfect Watch > Shop Blount Jewels For The Perfect Watch This Holiday Season. > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3165/549460d5e7aae60d558b1mp13duc > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
