Mateusz Viste wrote:
Hi C.J,
Reading your message I couldn't help but wonder about a few things.
Exact questions below.
On 20/10/2015 10:51, C.J. van Delft wrote:
I, for one, would also point out that there are many museums and
individuals with VERY old machines, who would need FreeDos if ever their
MS/IBM floppies go to Bit heaven.
Don't they have backups of their precious floppies? After all, the
content of these floppies is of museum value, too, and I'm not sure a
museum would be thrilled to display a 30-years old system that boots
into a system from 2015.
> ( IBM 5550 at a friends place that still works !)
Does it run FreeDOS currently at all? And if so, is it still used for
actual work, other than being booted twice a year for show in front of
family and friends? Ergo would it benefit in any tangible way from an
operating system upgrade?
For these old machines we must also ALWAYS provide a floppy only
distribution.
Who is "we", precisely? Are you willing to contribute significant
amounts of time, effort or money to keep FreeDOS entirely functional in
the 8086 realms?
Mateusz
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Hi Matheus.
No I am not a developer ( any more ! ) at 70 I am just relaxing and
doing very little. My concern is/was that FreeDos purports to be a free
MS/Dos replacement and is currently more and more being pushed in the
direction of 32/64 bit support, apparently without regard to legacy issues.
The museums and individuals I know of use these machines in an education
role, and of course there are backups but shit happens. So if you don’t
think this productive work .....
You apparently have very little regard for my concerns, and that’s fine.
Just be aware that there are folks with different priorities out there
and you should "live and let live".
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