i am curious if anyone uses this os on their old systems

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i am curious if anyone uses this os on their old systems

I tried it out a while back on a couple of XT class systems and dropped it for MS DOS 6.22 for a couple of reasons:
1 - Conventional memory use was higher the DOS 6.22
2 - I kept running into extra stuff the Freedos provides over MSDOS that wouldn't run due to needing a 386 to work & was just taking up space.
3 - I have no idea why, but I just could not get anything that provided network drives to work. I tried XFS, Lantastic the novell netware client for DOS & none of them could successfully mount network drives when running in Freedos.

I have not tried it on my 286 machine though. I am pretty happy with MS DOS, but I might give PC DOS 7 (IBM's dos) a go as it is supposed use even less conventional memory than MS DOS 6.

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i really hate the 386 only software like the bloody defragger and yeah the command.com uses a bunch of ram i stuck with 4dos which i think might use less ram

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i really hate the 386 only software like the bloody defragger and yeah
the command.com uses a bunch of ram i stuck with 4dos which i think
might use less ram

I know! The defragger of all things! How rude!

I am not using 4dos ATM but its on my list of things to play with.

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i am curious if anyone uses this os on their old systems

That's a negative. Actually never seen it.


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needing a 386 to work & was just taking up space. 3 - I have no idea
why, but I just could not get anything that provided network drives
to work. I tried XFS, Lantastic the novell netware client for DOS
& none of them could successfully mount network drives when running
in Freedos.

I wonder if it would mount CD-drives. One would have to guess the system
hooks for networking either don't work the same way or are in a different location. MSCDEX looks like a network driver to DOS.

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Re: anyone uses FreeDOS?
By: mary4 to All on Fri Jun 28 2024 11:08:05

i am curious if anyone uses this os on their old systems

I am using FreeDOS on two systems.

A 1995 desktop with a Pentium processor and 32 MB memory.

A 2005 laptop with a Pentium-M processor and 512 MB memory.

They are both networked through a serial port and sneakernet.

I use FreeDOS because i like that it comes with source code.
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I know! The defragger of all things! How rude!

i know right?

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That's a negative. Actually never seen it.

try it out u can do some crazy stuff on it like fat 32 on 16bit computers

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I am using FreeDOS on two systems.

A 1995 desktop with a Pentium processor and 32 MB memory.

wow!!!

A 2005 laptop with a Pentium-M processor and 512 MB memory.

NICE!!

They are both networked through a serial port and sneakernet.

eh u can us2e serial port for networking!? how?

I use FreeDOS because i like that it comes with source code.

SAME! <3 <3 <3 <3

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Re: Re: anyone uses FreeDOS?
By: mary4 to Ben Collver on Wed Jul 03 2024 01:10:30

They are both networked through a serial port and sneakernet.

eh u can us2e serial port for networking!? how?

I normally use kermit. In the 90's i used dosppp.

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They are both networked through a serial port and sneakernet.

eh u can us2e serial port for networking!? how?

I normally use kermit. In the 90's i used dosppp.

kermit? dosapp?? sneakernet?

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On 28 Jun 2024, mary4 said the following...

i am curious if anyone uses this os on their old systems

I just installed it on my HP t510.

I have a ways to go to get networking up. Lots to learn there.

I hope it can actually get online and make a connection to the internet.

I've recently built an mgetty system with a modem through an ATA, but I don't have to use the modem to get my FreeDOS system online.

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On 28 Jun 2024, Ben Collver said the following...

Re: anyone uses FreeDOS?
By: mary4 to All on Fri Jun 28 2024 11:08:05

I am using FreeDOS on two systems.

A 1995 desktop with a Pentium processor and 32 MB memory.

A 2005 laptop with a Pentium-M processor and 512 MB memory.

They are both networked through a serial port and sneakernet.

I use FreeDOS because i like that it comes with source code.

Hi Ben,

Do your systems have network cards?

Did you attempt to get tcp/ip working with them with FreeDOS?

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