I apologize for the typos.
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:25 AM, JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Microsoft's COMMAND.COM is not as great.Since when did it include two
> different memory versions (4dos)?FreeDOS includes extra commands that are
> built in,such as BEEP,SOUND,and a few other batch commands.As for
> compatibility with older computers,why not use their original OS?There are
> many archives online that have original zipped copies of MS-DOS.FreeDOS (As
> far as I know) is built for the more modern era (90's+).Before this
> time,computers didn't follow a standard hardware layout.One computer had a
> floppy port and no harddrive,and another required a master boot disk to
> boot.As for the WHY,some peopel just like vintage hardware.I do.Perhaps we
> could modify the original MS-DOS source,to keep it compatible with he
> original 8086 machine,while adding more features?
> Regards,
> -Jayden
>
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Edouard Forler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Le 26.05.2015 01:10, Rugxulo a écrit :
>> >> As for FreeDOS, well, the shell was really slow. My original idea was
>> to
>> >> get rid of Microsoft and get more features thanks to FreeDOS, but it
>> was
>> >> really too slow.
>> > If something specific like "DIR" or "COPY" were too slow, that would
>> > be nice to know. But FreeCOM (shell) is quite a beast, so it's fairly
>> > complex (and has no current maintainer). If you want to try again
>> > (presumably with 0.84-pre2 but maybe also 0.82pl3), go ahead. It would
>> > be nice to know the exact commands that are bottlenecks for you. But
>> > there may not be any huge fixes any time soon. So, for now, a
>> > workaround would be to use third-party tools (under FreeDOS, not
>> > MS-DOS, natch) that are faster (e.g. 1dir or Zcopy or whatever, I
>> > can't remember everything).
>> >
>>
>> Are you trying to say that Microsoft's DOS and COMMAND.COM are much more
>> optimized than FreeDOS/FreeCOM :-) ?
>>
>> I will give it try again when I have some time.
>>
>> Since yesterday, there are 201+ machines in the TOPBENCH database ;-)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
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