Re: [Freedos-user] can freedos?

2014-09-22 Thread Jim Hall
Short answer is yes. Longer answer is that you won't be able to take advantage of anything 64bit on the machine. FreeDOS is still DOS, so it runs as a 16bit process. Be careful if you machine has EFI, instead of BIOS. FreeDOS requires BIOS. Otherwise, you are better off running FreeDOS in a virtu

Re: [Freedos-user] can freedos?

2014-09-22 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Mercy the things that come across my desk...even if I am not seeking > them. > a question only. I have no idea why the person is asking. > Will freedos run on a 64 bit machine? Yes, in a virtual machine. 64bit X86 CPUs will still execut

Re: [Freedos-user] can freedos?

2014-09-22 Thread Ralf Quint
On 9/22/2014 3:23 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Mercy the things that come across my desk...even if I am not seeking > them. > a question only. I have no idea why the person is asking. > Will freedos run on a 64 bit machine? > Yes, of course. Unless you are referring with "64 bit machine" to an I

Re: [Freedos-user] can freedos?

2014-09-22 Thread Corbin Davenport
Yes. On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Mercy the things that come across my desk...even if I am not seeking > them. > a question only. I have no idea why the person is asking. > Will freedos run on a 64 bit machine? > Thanks, > Kare > > > > ---

[Freedos-user] can freedos?

2014-09-22 Thread Karen Lewellen
Mercy the things that come across my desk...even if I am not seeking them. a question only. I have no idea why the person is asking. Will freedos run on a 64 bit machine? Thanks, Kare -- Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Re

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-22 Thread Louis Santillan
Simtel is mirrored at Archive.org [0][1]. [0] https://archive.org/details/simtelnet_bu_mirror_2013_04 [1] http://ia601702.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/18/items/simtelnet_bu_mirror_2013_04/simtelnet.bu.mirror.2013.04.zip On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:25 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-22 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > Tried your provided link. The links on that page, no longer seem to be > valid. The first one, to dante.de, is broken for the English language page, which doesn't seem to exist now. The German site is up at http://www.dante.de/ Ghostscr

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-22 Thread Ralf Quint
On 9/22/2014 8:35 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > Tried your provided link. The links on that page, no longer seem to be > valid. > Works just fine here... Ralf --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-22 Thread Dale E Sterner
Tried your provided link. The links on that page, no longer seem to be valid. cheers DS On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:24:04 +0200 Angel M Alganza writes: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:48:28PM +0100, Krys > Garnett wrote: > > [...] > > It's primarily for academic writing, so decent > > support for foot

[Freedos-user] freedos packages

2014-09-22 Thread sparky4
should i make a freedos package of the zip commander? -- View this message in context: http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/freedos-packages-tp21137.html Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-22 Thread Angel M Alganza
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:48:28PM +0100, Krys Garnett wrote: [...] > It's primarily for academic writing, so decent > support for footnotes, endnotes and tables is [...] Nothing beats LaTeX for academic and scientific writing! http://freedos.gds.tuwien.ac.at/freedos/news/technote/106.html Che