Hi Everyone
I fooled around with FreeDos years ago. I have always loved the logo ! I
didn't see any reason to move from Linux but now I see reasons to use both.
I don't want to overrun the mailing list so I have multiple topics in
this one post, sorry in advance if this is not what I should have done.
1)I want to program on FreeDos, I want to use GCC ad I want to port over
GnuCOBOL. Are there any books or resources you could recommend, I
haven't found much on the wiki.
2)I love and hate old PCs. Specification-wise, they are all I need but
the PC industry is so cut-throat and has been for so long that PCs were
low quality even when new and something 15-20 years old is going to have
a lot of hardware issues. I know we are not on Raspberry PI etc but is
there another modern SBC or small inexpensive PC that you could
recommend for use with FreeDos ?
3)I use vim on Linux, has anyone ported this over? It looks like there
is FreeMacs, is this my best bet for a Unix like editor ?
4)Does FreeDos have a fixed limit in terms of resolution. The font is
large for me and I would like a lot more lines of code per screen. Is
there any information on adjusting screen settings?
5)Rather then develop right on FreeDos, do you guys cross compile from
Linux ? Do you have any examples of this?
6)Can I confirm that FreeDos is in real mode and that the user logged in
can do anything? If I want to write to a parallel port can I just assign
a pointer to it's address and write to it? There is no protection correct?
7)Similar to above, can I confirm that FreeDos has no threading. If I
write a program and it's running, it has 100% of the CPU correct? Does
this mean that a program is basically deterministic and might be
suitable for soft real time requirements? I am in the scientific
equipment business and I actually wonder if labs might like FreeDos for
experiments and data collection. They don't need portability and cost(as
in +/- $200) isn't so important.
Thanks for reading my post-Patrick
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