Subject: Re: [Free]DOS port?
From: Michael Kallas (michael.kallas@web.de)
Date: Wed Nov 07 2001 - 08:18:27 CST
Hi, ok, sorry to have written to the wrong list...
Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr> schrieb am 07.11.01:
> According to ArcadePreserv Center <arcadepreserv@hotmail.com>:
> > I would like to add that a DOS port would not be useless and pointless.
> > I have many friends which have only one modern computer, which mean that
> > the family must timeshare the useage. They have however often an old 486 > > in their attic.
Well, the goal of FreeDOS is to create a 8088 compliant OS.
It's really doing quite well, now :-)
I personally use it on a 386sx25 notebook with 1 MB of RAM.
Well, I can even play Nethack on it ;-)
> > If they could use it together with dos to make their wordprocessing it
> > would
> > be very nice.
Yes, at current point, there are WYSIWYG word processing tools for DOS, but
none of them are free software.
> You could run it under Linux or BSD :-) Even Win95 runs on a 486.
Negative! Linux requires at _absolute_ minimum 4MB RAM, any version of
windows is proprietary...
Well, I still own a copy of Win3.1 and Works3.0 but have you ever tried
to open newer formats with that? Besides, it's not free at all. So, while
this may be an option for a single user, it's not for the community.
But there's a way of looking at Word files at least, it's called antiword
(http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html#DOS).
> So, it is not only a "see if it can be done" and "see if I can do it"
> thing,
> it is in fact also a quite useful thing. Not to mention the usefulness
> in the 3rd world, where I believe modern computers are a luxuary.
There is also some project sending computers based on FreeDOS into these
countries.
> >
> > BTW: Would a windows 3.1 port be easier ?
>
> I don't think.
Well, _this_ is out of my reach. Nowadays, you either get win32 progs
(or Linux, preferrably) or plain DOS.
>
> Hub
Best regards
Michael
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