Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ms-dos 7.1

[Thalis Agáthōn]

Hi  Eric, thank you for your  reply

It's nice to feel that one is not alone in Dosland :)

Yes I was installing the source code aswel, because I am studying programming and I would surely like to have an idea of what's under the hood.  Ok I might install again on the Pentium MMX without the source and only install that on my main system.

My aim for using DOS is that I want to revive older computers and make them useful. I know it's a bit of a lost battle because of the fast evolution of browsers and demands of websites. This rapid growth makes keeping up impossible for Dos.  I think it is sad because society is putting tons of great soft-and hardware, which has costed thousands of man hours of diligent effort to create, to waste. I think this is a shame and wouldn't be necessary if computer use were more rationalised and text based software would have remained the norm. 

Capitalism's pressure to continuely innovate or loose competition makes this impossible.

If I can manage to use text based browsing on FreeDos that would be nice, but this will probably be limited so in any case I have Tiny Core Linux at hand to do the browsing of modern sites on older pc's, but this isn't possible for below Pentium 3 I think...

Thanks!

Thalis
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23:54, 15 September 2019, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de>:

Hi Thalis!

If FreeDOS took hours for you to install, you might
have tried to install everything and the sources.

This can be 100s of megabytes and if you are not a
programmer, you will rarely touch the source code.

To have a result more similar to MS DOS 7, simply
install only the "base" packages. You could even
try a basic install floppy :-) Extra packages can
be installed with the package managers or often
by just unzipping the packages without management.

It could also be that something went wrong with a
default driver config for network, USB, memory or
disk / CD, slowing down the whole install process?
In that case, install with more basic boot config.

FreeDOS has more support for modern hardware, but
it would be very interesting to hear which MS DOS
programs fail in which ways for you with FreeDOS.

On old hardware, it can be useful that FreeDOS has
smaller drivers, so more RAM is free for your apps,
but you should expect the need to tune the EMM386
configuration in different ways than with MS DOS.

Using only XMS / HMA drivers is easier, but gives
less impressive amounts of free memory. For running
apps in general, the differences between MS DOS 7
and FreeDOS are relatively small either way. Price
and license differ significantly, of course :-)

Regards, Eric



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