Re: [Freedos-user] Eric Auer's "A Fantasy of a future..."

2010-04-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, > I am not impressed with Freedos network support or printer support for > that matter. If someone could port CUPS to Freedos, that would be > really nice. As far as networking, someone should make a GPL clone of > Microsoft Client and possibly others should start making DOS drivers

Re: [Freedos-user] USB support, USB portable HD?,music

2010-04-13 Thread Garrison Ricketson
Hello,  I was looking at the most recent new letters, and because I am wondering about installing FreeDos, into a new portable HD, usb I just bought, it is a sangsun,320GB  I also just wanted to comment, on the music, and long file names, I use MPXPLAY, on the FreeDos, and yea, when I first

Re: [Freedos-user] A fantasy of a future for FreeDOS

2010-04-13 Thread ニール・ゴンパ
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Geraldo Netto wrote: > LiLo - LInux LOader? > > Geraldo > Non dvcor, dvco => Sapere Aude > São Paulo, Brasil, -3gmt > site: http://exdev.sf.net/ > > I believe that is what he is referring to... ---

Re: [Freedos-user] A fantasy of a future for FreeDOS

2010-04-13 Thread Geraldo Netto
LiLo - LInux LOader? Geraldo Non dvcor, dvco => Sapere Aude São Paulo, Brasil, -3gmt site: http://exdev.sf.net/ On 13 April 2010 09:02, Tom Ehlert wrote: > if you like the idea of a multitasking DOS, just get DeskView, > and see if you like the idea of a multitasking DOS as much as we > (you and

Re: [Freedos-user] A fantasy of a future for FreeDOS

2010-04-13 Thread Tom Ehlert
if you like the idea of a multitasking DOS, just get DeskView, and see if you like the idea of a multitasking DOS as much as we (you and me) did in ~1990 > Yes indeed. But then, there clearly are some skilled people working on > FreeDOS! sorry, no. there is clearly nobody *working* on FreeDOS (w

Re: [Freedos-user] Eric Auer's "A Fantasy of a future..."

2010-04-13 Thread Liam Proven
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > DOS is not a good candidate for multitasking.  Why DOS can run in less > memory and with older hardware than NT style systems and Linux style > systems can, others who are more knowledgeable can comment on that. I'm not saying that DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] A fantasy of a future for FreeDOS

2010-04-13 Thread Liam Proven
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Liam, > > to multitask DOS apps which use direct hardware access, > you have to use vm8086 mode of the 386 and newer CPUs. > Many apps have this problem, only few use only the DOS > kernel to access hardware. Many at least also use BIOS. [..

Re: [Freedos-user] A fantasy of a future for FreeDOS

2010-04-13 Thread Liam Proven
2010/4/11 Sir Gallantmon (ニール・ゴンパ) : > > It's already been done. One really well known one is DJGPP, which implements > enough of the POSIX API to run the tools it includes. Another I've found is > emx+dos. I don't know how POSIX compliant it is (Wikipedia says it is > "largely" compliant verses DJ