Hi, Have you read me carefully ?
I have the original OS on the original floppies, thank you. And the problem is not about having more features or not. It is not about compatibility either. FreeDOS works like a charm on my machine. The problem, which is not really a problem, considering the added features, is that FreeDOS is slow, much slower than ms-dos. Of course, you don't see it, you use Pentium or better machines. DIR is awfully slow, access to disk is slow, DOS calls are slow, etc. compared to ms-dos on the same PC-XT. That has nothing to do with features or compatibility, but with optimization. And this was just a sidenote of mine, not a critic. By the way, FreeDOS was created with the idea to be 100% compatible even with the first PC and I myself contributed around 2005-2006 to provide older keymaps for PC-XTs, to correct some issues here and with some tools using 386 instructions in the 8086 version, etc. Thank you. Le 26.05.2015 16:25, JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU a écrit : > Microsoft's COMMAND.COM <http://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] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Le 26.05.2015 01 <tel:26.05.2015%2001>: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 > <http://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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > One dashboard for servers and applications across > Physical-Virtual-Cloud > Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications > Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable > Insights > Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud > Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications > Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights > Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
