http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/img/uploaded/image24.jpg
while installing freedos 1.3 rc5 i get the error that you see in the image.
Now this is not your modern pc it's from the win 98/me days as it does have
isa slots and has an SB16 with attached wave blaster. It is a pentium
machine if that h
My message appeared on the list afer all.
I shall thank Jim Hall and the others at
Sourceforge who solved this problem.
___
Freedos-user mailing list
Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Liam Proven said:
> There were DOS email and chat and FTP
> clients; that stuff's fairly easy.
Were is the right word. Most email
servers nowadays require TLS, which
is not available in DOS email clients.
There are few remaining FTP servers,
and I cannot tell how many also need
TLS.
I never used c
Plain right!
A LiLO that loads a small Linux distro which is multi-consoled, text-only,
and whose unique Shell is DOSEMU.
That would make it too, without the pain of writing VxDs, Linux will do the
job :)
Aitor
On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 at 18:58, tom ehlert wrote:
>
> > Well, as said above, this has
> Well, as said above, this has precisely been proved to be extracted
> from Windows and used for stand-alone DOS environment. Just because
> it is called VMM32.VXD (and not the original DOS386.EXE name), and
> has been sold just with Windows, and not DOS, does not mean it is an
> un-dettachable
Hi,
On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 at 14:36, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2021 at 22:19, Aitor Santamaría wrote:
> >
>
> > Why DOS386.EXE (later renamed to VMM32.VXD) would run "on top" of DOS
> and not be DOS itself, the natural way DOS adapts to a 386?
> > Just because, for commercial reasons, Mi
On Sun, 26 Dec 2021 at 22:19, Aitor Santamaría wrote:
>
> Why isn't multitasking just another feature that you "add" on top?
It was. There were multiple multitaskers for DOS, of which the best
was generally agreed to be DESQview.
The snag was the 640 kB memory limit. On an 8086 or 80286, all app
