Mike,
Good to make your acquaintance. Let me respond to your questions and
remarks below.
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Michael B. Brutman
wrote:
>
> John,
>
> Maybe you could help us by being very specific with what worked and what
> went wrong? The only thing I could gather from your me
Hi Eric,
> Note that this is probably not VM specific and wouldalso happen on real
> hardware.
If I'm running DOS in a production environment on real hardware I (personally)
would make sure the hardware could handle it and not overheat. There are
plenty of industrial solutions out there that
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Kenny Emond wrote:
> What programming language is FreeDOS written in? Are the apps made in
> the same language?
>
>--- Kenny
>
Speaking generally:
Most of the programs that make up the "core" components of FreeDOS are
written in C, Assembly, or both. The
Hi Cordata,
> So is the problem simply eating up processor time?
Note that this is probably not VM specific and would
also happen on real hardware. Why not run DOS on your
real 64 bit CPU? At boot, it is in 16 bit addr space
anyway, allowing the usual DOS 16/32 bit calculations.
You would waste
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Kenny Emond wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I have some suggestions for the site, but I didn't know where to post
> them. Can I post them here?
Hi Kenny!
There are several of us who can update the website, but mostly it's
just me. Feel free to email me!
-jh
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Op 16-8-2012 0:46, john s wolter schreef:
> I spent four days getting FreeDOS to work as a guest OS inside a
> VirtualBox machine. The path to success was a rocky and time consuming
> trial and error process. Once the particular console program was
> running it was not very fast. The customer de
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Kenny Emond wrote:
>
> What programming language is FreeDOS written in? Are the apps made in
> the same language?
The kernel is a heavily-modified version of DOS-C by Pat Villani,
hence it is (unsurprisingly) "almost" entirely in C (by design).
Though his ori
