You might have trouble with sound drivers. MS dos 7.1 wanted me to use windows to install one so that I could enjoy Windows but no windows to use. FREEDOS doesn't care.
DS On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 13:58:08 -0500 Dennis Fenton <dwf...@gmail.com> writes: > Thanks to everyone on the FreeDOS list who tried to help me. I > learned > a few things. After careful consideration I decided to go in a > different direction. I installed MS-DOS 7.10. It is now running > smoothly on my 486 laptop. I had to set up the SCSI drives by > writing > a few lines into autoexec.bat and one into config.sys. > Happy computing. > > On 25/03/2017, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> > wrote: > >> > >> I disagree about FreeDOS being "not ready yet" or "no advantage > to MS > >> DOS". > > > > If you already have the original gold standard of DOSes, i.e. > MS-DOS > > (which was widely tested and hugely popular, by far the most > > ubiquitous DOS), then you don't urgently "need" any other DOS > clone at > > all, period. > > > > Various DOS clones exist, and they all have minor advantages, but > > overall they work the same (no extra APIs offered, no utilizing > newer > > advanced cpu features). For common DOS software (and loadable > > drivers), they all behave effectively the same (more or less) on > any > > decent DOS kernel. > > > > Reasons not to use MS-DOS? It's unsupported and proprietary and > harder to > > find. > > Reasons not to use FreeDOS? You just want to run the exact same > > software that already runs perfectly on your current MS-DOS > install. > > > > Heck, apparently there are still people using TAWK, which is > > (apparently) proprietary and long dead. One guy was complaining > that > > GAWK (aka, GPL) still doesn't 100% equal TAWK features despite > being > > 20 years newer. Sound familiar? Old habits die hard. > > > > (In hindsight, it's best to not write proprietary, non-standard, > > unportable software at all, if you have a choice. Although nothing > > lasts forever, not even standards, it does certainly help to try > to be > > portable/cross-platform from the start.) > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > _______________________________________________ > > Freedos-user mailing list > > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ____________________________________________________________ Police Urge Americans to Carry This With Them at All Times The Observer http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/58d91a79e59d71a797f86st03duc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
