From: Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> Granted I am not commenting on the exact post, too much to locate it exactly. still, speaking only for myself, I have continued to build upon and find dos solutions without having to change operating systems for almost 30 years now. My choice to think first about solutions instead of thinking I could not advance has yet to fail me. I am surprised on a list dedicated to a Dos program at how often I read people suggest going to use something else laughs. I cannot speak to other people's computing, but is not that why we call them personal computers in the first place? Kare
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 3:58 PM, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote: >> >>> I installed win 7 on a laptop to see what it could do but not to use it. >>> I installed software that I bought to see what it would do on win 7. >>> A lot of of message boxes came up giving me 24 hours to reactive >>> or it would shut down forever. >> >> Did those messages come from Win7 or the software you installed? > > Can't you use a RC (release candidate) for a few months? Or is that > not supported any longer? > >>> I left the test software on being affraid that if I removed it, it would >>> do it again. Win 7 is now on my junk software list. > > In fairness, Win7 doesn't have a lot of life left, so it's not a good > long-term solution. (Vista very recently died, so no more updates or > fixes.) > >> You got DOS and DOS apps in the old days, got them to where you >> wanted, and stopped. If what you have does what you need, splendid. >> If it doesn't, you are looking at stepping beyond DOS. That will mean >> either a flavor of Windows or a flavor of Linux. Either way, there's >> a learning curve you're stuck with, and you need to learn more about >> and better understand what your options are. > > I can't help but wonder if a simple Chromebook (from Best Buy, etc.) > would fit the bill for him (or me or others). But without QEMU or > similar by default, it's probably less useful. Google probably thinks > emulation would be overkill for the "light" tasks that Chromebooks > support. You can "probably" install a full Ubuntu (instead of default > ChromeOS), but I'm not sure of the potential tradeoffs there (battery > life?). > > A lot of issues with old DOS software have to do with printing, as one > guy on BTTR recently mentioned needing. Not sure what is perfectly > ideal here (VDosPlus??). BTW, QEMU 2.9.0 was just released today (but > I'm unaware of any relevant changes for us). > > Another long shot would be DOS emulation in the browser via > Javascript. Normally I would shun that for being too buggy or slow, > but there are TONS of Javascript emulators. It's shocking actually, > and some are amazingly good (and network-aware), e.g. OpenRISC. Of > course, DOS is not high priority, and copy.sh's V86 is still too > buggy, but we can dream, can't we? ;-) > >> Proceeding without knowledge is a good way to shoot yourself in *both* feet. > > Shooting your foot off? Yes, C++17 was finalized recently. :-)) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 --- Internet Rex 2.29 * Origin: capcity2.synchro.net - 502/875-8938 (276:10/901) --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux ListGate 1.3 * Capitol City Online - Frankfort, KY - telnet://capitolcityonline.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
