From: Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> For the most part dos moves well between machines. Did have trouble with cutemouse & jemmex. On some machines they hang up. What is the difference between Lubuntu & Ubuntu. What difference does the L make.
cheers DS On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:29:26 -0400 dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Dale E Sterner > <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote: > > I run my pure DOS on a CF chip and move it from one > > machine to another on a cf chip. Try doing that with windows. > > You can't. Windows will detect it's on a new machine, and complain. > > But if you run Windows, that's not something you *want* to do, or > have > *reason* to do. > > You might be able to do something like that with Linux. How well it > would work would depend on the machines you were moving between. > Like > Windows, desktop Linux pays attention to the hardware of the machine > it's running on, so things like video and networking work as > desired. > I run Ubuntu Linux here because it does the best job I've seen in a > Linux distro of figuring out what it's being installed on, setting > itself up, and Just Working with minimal input required from the > user. > Just Working requires the appropriate drivers to be installed and > loaded when the machine boots. Different machines will have > different > hardware and require different drivers. > > > Running DOS on windows is like turning it into a parasite. > > So what? And you aren't *running* DOS on Windows. You are running > DOS *emulation* in a virtual machine (which is essentially what > things > like vDOS are), which allows you to run DOS *applications* under > Windows. You don't *need* DOS itself in the mix. (You could run > DOS > apps "native" on Win2K/XP, but *that* was emulation too. Real DOS > was > nowhere to be found.) > > (I run an assortment of DOS apps on an Android tablet. Android has > a > Linux kernel under the hood, and the tablet uses an ARM Cortex 7 > quad > core CPU. I run DOS apps via an Android port of DOSBox, with is a > VM > intended to let you play old DOS games on machines that aren't DOS > PCs, but supports things that aren't games, too. Look, Ma! No DOS! > :-) ) > > > cheers > > DS > ______ > Dennis > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > 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 *******************************************************>>>> ____________________________________________________________ Actress Maggie Q Shocks With Her Solution To Tummy Troubles activatedyou.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/58fe3d68866b63d683477st03duc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
