- hi; in raseff article, <jgo8IrGaFfwHFwx5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
forgottenfutures@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Marcus L. Rowland" quoted:
> In message <maju05LJqdwHFwyP@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Robert Sneddon <fred@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>> Marcus L. Rowland <forgottenfutures@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>>
>>>If you're looking for DOS you're probably not going to have much luck -
>>>there are no modern PCs I know of that can be made to run any version
>>>of DOS without Windows behind the scenes doing things like memory
>>>management.
>>
>> Nope, DOS will run natively on new systems if you install it or boot
>>from floppy. You won't get access to more than 640k of RAM
- hmm? drdos 5 & upwards (and quite possibly below 5;
that's just the earliest i recall) are fine addressing
extended memory, so long as you configure them to use
emm386. i don't know about messdos & ibm's pcdos, but
i assume they can do similarly.
- dos will need large hard drives partitioned into a
number of smaller drives before it can make use of all
their space (and iirc there was an upper limit to how
large a hard drive they can cope with in this way).
>>and you'll not be able to use things like some PCI bus cards or USB
>>****ts.
- there are dos usb ****t-drivers, but i'm not aware
of them having been made available separately from
windows 95, alas - is anyone here au fait with how
far the people writing freedos have got ?
- love, a ppint. happy to have even half a shop open again
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