On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 8:01 PM richardkolacz...@hotmail.com <richardkolacz...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I am new to trying to setup FreeDOS as bare-metal configuration to use > instead of Windows 10 for programs I am writing.
Why on Earth do you want to do *that*? > I notice that HP computer company has FreeDOS 3.0 as an option for Available > Operating Systems. Is this anything to do with this forum? Any advantages for > me to use this instead of RC1.5 version etc. HP's spec sheet is *wrong.* There *is* no FreeDOS 3.0. FreeDOS current release is 1.3. If you go the HP_'s top level site and search for FreeDOS 3.0, it will find nothing. And this is not a machine you want to try to set up FreeDOS to run from the bare metal on. Too much of the hardware is simply not supported by any form of DOS. DOS stopped being sold and supported long before some of it existed, and it uses UEFI, not a BIOS, so getting DOS to boot on it will be a real challenge. You haven't specified what sort of software you want to develop, but unless you are dedicated Old Skool, who wants to develop on a pure DOS PC using only development tools available when DOS was current, you are better served to get a decent Win10 Pro machine with current development toolchains, and compile to 808X.binaries than can run under DOS and run DOS in emulation. If I wanted to do this sort of thing, I'd start with a Win10 desktop, not a laptop. The one I'm using at the moment is a refurb ex-corporate workstation that came with a quad cone Intel i5 cpu 2 356ghx, with a built in turbo mode up to 3.9 ghz, 16GB of RAM, Intel HD 4600 graphics, and Win10 Pro on a 256GB SSD, It cont *one tenth* of the price for the laptop in the specs. If you absolutely must run DOS on the bare metal, look at the links for new gear posted earlier, or look around on someplace like eBay for old PCVs that were designed to run DOS. Buy the HP laptop advertised, and you will spend a lot of money on a machine that cannot be used for what you want to do. ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
