Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ReactOS

2006-09-24 Thread Andrew Greenberg
> That's good to hear. It's in small computer > instrumentation that I was considering Freedos. > > What revision are you using? We were using 0.9 beta something or other, but it was an ancient version and we had conflicts between himem and cutemouse. We just switched to the 1.0 release, reteste

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ReactOS

2006-09-24 Thread Larry
That's good to hear. It's in small computer instrumentation that I was considering Freedos. What revision are you using? --- Andrew Greenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That is, it would not be foolhardy to expect to > use > > Freedos in some actual business applications? > > I think Fre

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ReactOS

2006-09-24 Thread Andrew Greenberg
> That is, it would not be foolhardy to expect to use > Freedos in some actual business applications? I think FreeDOS is used in a surprising amount of business applications, but people don't advertise it very much because DOS isn't 'cool'. We currently use FreeDOS as a RTOS (real time interrup

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ReactOS

2006-09-23 Thread Blair Campbell
In terms of fulfillment of goals, yes, FreeDOS is much farther ahead. In terms of things that can be done, ReactOS has much larger shoes to fill. ReactOS aspires to be able to do as much as Windows, whereas DOS is probably somewhat simpler to clone. But yes, FreeDOS is probably more useable at th

[Freedos-user] Freedos vs ReactOS

2006-09-23 Thread Larry
I took a look at the reactOS project today. I'm assuming that you folks would agree that Freedos is much further along than reactOS? That is, it would not be foolhardy to expect to use Freedos in some actual business applications? It doesn't appear to me that reactOS is anywhere near being usa