Re: [Freedos-user] Lousy NTFS...

2024-07-25 Thread userbeitrag--- via Freedos-user
On July 25 2024, 01:49, andrew fabbro wrote via Freedos-user: 1. Does FreeDOS have any AV software options? I think, any DOS AV software for MS-DOS-compatible Disk Operating Systems should also work on FreeDOS. No? I don't think that there are many DOS AV software options left today, becaus

Re: [Freedos-user] Lousy NTFS...

2024-07-25 Thread userbeitrag--- via Freedos-user
On July 25 2024, 00:11, Dan Schmidt wrote via Freedos-user: Maybe a bot off topic, but How many of you woke up to the CrowdStrike debacle Friday morning and, after making minced oaths, solemnly proclaimed "If we still had Fat32 and BIOS, I could fix this with FreeDos in 20 seconds flat!"

Re: [Freedos-user] Lousy NTFS...

2024-07-25 Thread userbeitrag--- via Freedos-user
On July 25 2024, 11:50, Mateusz Viste wrote via Freedos-user: On 25/07/2024 10:44, userbeitrag--- via Freedos-user wrote: Since DOS was vulnerable to boot viruses, it was AFAIK only necessary to access a (floppy) disk. DOS would always execute the virus if it was in the boot sector (be it a VBR

Re: [Freedos-user] XMS on a 8086

2025-07-31 Thread userbeitrag--- via Freedos-user
On 30th Aug 2025, 13:57, tsiegel--- via Freedos-user wrote: On 7/30/2025 6:41 AM, Ralf Quint via Freedos-user wrote: Sorry to disappoint you, but you can't run a "80826 specific programs on a V20". Wrong. Just to throw in one more "item": "8088 CPU is slightly slower than NEC V20, but