On Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 9:38 PM Brandon Taylor via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Since FreeDOS doesn't support physical network hardware (even if it's > emulated in a program like PCem or 86Box), I figure there's no way FreeDOS > is gonna be able to connect to the Internet, right? Well... > > The developers of the 86Box project have recently implemented emulation of > a Hayes-compatible dial-up modem. So my question is... will FreeDOS support > the emulated modem? > Well, it's not that "FreeDOS" would support the Hayes modern, but that terminal/dialer software would then be able to. FreeDOS is not like Linux, which uses a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) to support the hardware directly. FreeDOS, like any DOS, does normal DOS things and leaves certain hardware access (like playing sounds through a sound card, or accessing a network to browse the web or check email, or dialing out through a modem) to other software. So if you had a terminal/dialer program like Procomm or Telix, then yes, I expect you'd be able to dial out through this emulated Hayes modem from FreeDOS. >
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