Re: [Freedos-user] XMS Manager on '286 (FreeDOS not ONLY for old PC)

2005-03-17 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:53:37 +0100, you wrote: Hi Everyone, >Sorry, I understood that you meant that there's no point in installing FreeDOS >in a new machine, and I mentioned a possible situation. I think maybe misunderstanding between idea and languages. FreeDOS can be use on old or new machin

Re: [Freedos-user] XMS Manager on '286 (FreeDOS not ONLY for old PC)

2005-03-16 Thread Charlie Wilkes
--- GNU_man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reason I like using such a slow PC is that you > can actually see the difference in performance > between good code and sloppy code. On a more > modern machine than my 286, a routine written in > interpreted QBasic would appear to run no slower > tha

RE: Re: [Freedos-user] XMS Manager on '286 (FreeDOS not ONLY for old PC)

2005-03-16 Thread AITOR SANTAMARIA MERINO
005 6:57pm Asunto: Re: [Freedos-user] XMS Manager on '286 (FreeDOS not ONLY for old PC) > I think some people misunderstood what I originally said about FD >and old PC's. I didn't say ONLY, i just meant in addition to providing >a true DOS O/S for your current c

Re: [Freedos-user] XMS Manager on '286 (FreeDOS not ONLY for old PC)

2005-03-15 Thread GNU_man
Johnson Lam wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:29:46 +0100, you wrote: Hi Aitor, Sorry for breaking in ... I disagree. FreeDOS is not "suited for old machines", but "suited for running DOS16/DOS32 code", as well as you can use WindowsXP to run your Win32 code and Linux to run your

Re: [Freedos-user] XMS Manager on '286 (FreeDOS not ONLY for old PC)

2005-03-15 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:29:46 +0100, you wrote: Hi Aitor, Sorry for breaking in ... >I disagree. FreeDOS is not "suited for old machines", but "suited for >running DOS16/DOS32 code", as well as you can use WindowsXP to run your >Win32 code and Linux to run your Linux code. Have you ever tried t