On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 1:49 PM Mattia Limonta <mattialim...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Good evening. > > I am a new user of the FreeDOS world, and I have a question. I would like to > install FreeDOS 1.2 on an old PC that we have at work because we have to > create a backup system for our 1987 IBM Personal System 2, currently running > IBM PCDOS 3.30 OEM. We still have this machine because it’s attached to a > metal analyzer that uses a software that exists only for PCDOS 3.30. > > Does this type of software run on FreeDOS 1.2? Is it possibile to get the > full compatibility?
PCDOS was simply IBM's branded version of MSDOS. I used PCDOS and MSDOS back when, and saw *no* differences in what software would run under them. Your metal analyzer was specifically released for IBM PCs running PCDOS, but I don't see a reason why it won't run on another DOS flavor. FreeDOS tries to be 100% MSDOS compatible, so your PCDOS software ought to run on it. Set up FreeDOS on the spare PC and try it. If it works, you are in good shape. If it doesn't work, tell us where it fails. DOS shouldn't be your problem. Reproducing the environment in which the metal analyzer runs (like loading drivers needed to talk to peripherals that do the analysis) sounds like the tricky part. > Thanks! > Mattia Limonta (Italy) ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
