In the mid 1990s I copied the Tru64 shared libraries and some other things from
one of the universities Tru64 machines onto an Alpha running Linux in my
office. With a very small amount of hacking around and configuring I got
Mozilla and maybe a few other things to run.
Other than showing ever
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 7:35 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 6:06 PM Thomas Mueller wrote:
>>
>> [..]
>> I remember there was a DR-DOS 8 that used GPL parts from FreeDOS, but that
>> had to be withdrawn from the market due to legal challenges, using
>> open-source GPL parts in a cl
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 6:06 PM Thomas Mueller wrote:
> [..]
> I remember there was a DR-DOS 8 that used GPL parts from FreeDOS, but that
> had to be withdrawn from the market due to legal challenges, using
> open-source GPL parts in a closed-source system.
>
>
Yes, I was one of the folks who con
I remember, from DR-DOS website (drdos.com to the best of my memory), in their
later years DR-DOS could load Linux and come back to DR-DOS after the user
exited from Linux.
As far as I could see, it was not possible to run DOS and Linux software
concurrently.
I never tried that, believe DR-DOS
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 11:41 AM Louis Santillan wrote:
>
> The author freely admits running DOS & Linux side-by-side this way is
> a fragile coordination [0]. I doubt that redirection would work as
> one might desire. The recently updated ascii demo [1] shows calling
> various DOS and Linux com
After poking around the GitHub project, this is actually a very clever
thing. Looks like he's using VM86 mode (requires '386 or later CPU) to
instantiate a dedicated Linux kernel with BusyBox to run the Linux
commands. This is not bringing up a full Linux installation in a VM - this
is only the ker
The author freely admits running DOS & Linux side-by-side this way is
a fragile coordination [0]. I doubt that redirection would work as
one might desire. The recently updated ascii demo [1] shows calling
various DOS and Linux commands, and, shows creating a text file with
`dsl vi hello.txt` and
Hi everybody,
I would predict doslinux to be a variant of a Linux loader,
so my questions here are: Can Linux safely write to the DOS
partition while running? What are the limitations to return
to DOS after using Linux? Is it possible to switch between
DOS and Linux without having to reboot Linu
