http://www.freedos.org/download/
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:58 AM, JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU <
[email protected]> wrote:
> (http://www.freedos.org/download/).Try the floppy images here.
>
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Edouard Forler <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks for proposing something. I don't mean to ask for an immediate
>> solution to this issue. And I know the [dev] resources are low.
>>
>> If I can find some time to do it, I would like to investigate why it is
>> slow. ms-dos was written in assembly until ms-dos 4, however they kept
>> much of it after that and as I said, ms-dos 6.22 works much faster on an
>> XT. Is freedos written in assembly as well ?
>>
>> Also, as mentionned years ago on this list, I might have tested it with
>> some useless extenders enabled by default. So I think there is room for
>> investigation.
>>
>> Actually, the whole reflexion started when I saw this ODIN stuff. My
>> first reaction was "oh ? there's a specific 8086 Freedos distro called
>> ODIN ?" But now I see it's not very well maintained.
>>
>> Do you know if there is any 5"1/4 image of Freedos with a sort of
>> minimal set of features available ?
>>
>> EF
>>
>> Le 26.05.2015 16:43, JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU a écrit :
>> > If it is slow..then..hmm.Perhaps we could somehow size down the memory
>> > block usage of all the FreeDOS calls/programs?Just tossing around
>> > ideas,as it would be cool to know someone is using an OS that can be
>> > used on modern and old PC's.(It's kind of the same thing as saying I
>> > can use windows 8 on a commodore VIC 20.It would be nice to know we
>> > reached that goal.).
>> >
>> > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Steve Nickolas <[email protected]
>> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Tue, 26 May 2015, JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU wrote:
>> >
>> > > 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
>> >
>> > FreeDOS was, at least originally, intended to be a replacement and
>> > successor to said original DOS. Even MS-DOS 6.22 and PC DOS 7.0
>> > still ran
>> > on 5160s and Tandy 1000s.
>> >
>> > I think these days there's more of an attitude of FreeDOS being
>> > mainly for
>> > use in VMs, rather than on metal. A shame, really.
>> >
>> > Personally, I went back to PC DOS - mainly because things always
>> > worked
>> > the way I expected them to (something not really true with FreeDOS).
>> >
>> > I don't think *my* goal of what *I* want out of FreeDOS is shared
>> > by most
>> > of the developers, so generally, I've stayed out of conversations
>> > while I
>> > watch what goes on. To be honest, I think "works like MS-DOS 3.3,
>> > has the
>> > better hardware support of DOS 6, and some of the useful features
>> > from DOS
>> > 6, while still staying true to its roots as an OS for *8088* PCs"
>> > is what
>> > I want - rather than mainly as an emulation mode for newer
>> > machines - and
>> > since the latter seems to be the preferred direction around here,
>> > I don't
>> > think my input is very much desired or desirable, so I don't say
>> much.
>> >
>> > The benefit of FreeDOS is that it's *free* - and not free as in
>> "arr,
>> > matey".
>> >
>> > -uso.
>> >
>> >
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