1. Re: Good FreeDOS (was Good Russian DOS)
On 3 Jul 2004, at 23:16, David Jarvis wrote:
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>
> Dear Forum members
>
> I personally find FreeDOS
> (http://www.freedos.org)
> works fine with Euphoria DOS code.
>
> And yes .... it's FREE!
>
> I'm not sure how it compares to PTS-DOS.
This like this don't make freedos look so good:
http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=Using_FreeDOS/164
Neither do the constant stream of bug fixes this year that should have been
fixed 8 years ago. Geeze, they just got more smartdrive bug fixes in, and my
ramdrive worked fine in 1996!
Kat
> David Jarvis
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>
> On 2 Jul 2004 at 18:07, Igor Kachan wrote:
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> >
> > Dear EU users:
> >
> > There is one new version of DOS here in Russia.
> > It is PTS-DOS 32, the next generation of PTS-DOS 2000.
> >
> > Visit please:
> >
> > http://www.PhysTechSoft.com
> >
> > there is the English and German versions of PTS-DOS,
> > the site has English and German pages.
> >
> > This company is based on famous Russian
> > university - Moskowskij Physico-Tekchnicheskij Institut.
> >
> > There was some little feature in these DOSe's - standard
> > Euphoria did not want to run on these strange Russian
> > platforms. But the last build of PTS-DOS 32 has no this
> > feature, it is discovered and fixed now and Euphoria
> > runs OK now.
> >
> > There is work around that feature on PTS-DOS 2000 platform.
> > Very simple thing - just rename ex.exe into exd.exe
> > or other ex_N.exe you like and it will run on previous
> > PTS-DOS 32 and PTS-DOS 2000.
> >
> > PTS-DOSes are the fastest and smallest DOSes in the
> > world. This product is certificated by Russian Military
> > Ministry, its versions used for the cosmic sputniks,
> > atomic industry etc. It has the ROM version too.
> >
> > PTS-DOS 2000 takes only 2 floppy disks, contains
> > the modern DOS Internet browser (very good, 1.3Mb zip,
> > works on my 386 mainframe with 8Mb RAM, 40Mb HDD --
> > I have now the IBM NetVista machine with 1.8Ghz P4,
> > 256Mb RAM, 3x40Gb HDDs, CDRW/DVD, ThinkVision flat panel,
> > Linux Red Hat 9 -- but I love and prefer my old good
> > 25Mhz 386 with 640x480 VGA and 12x CD), yes,
> > and now this DOS runs Euphoria - the fastest
> > and smallest programming system.
> >
> > For now, I am testing EU DOS/GEN programs on these
> > great OSes, but then I'll try to prepare the Web page
> > with links to recommended EU DOS and GEN programs
> > of The Archive of RDS for the
> > http://www.PhysTechSoft.com site.
> >
> > PTS-DOSes cost just $20 or so, free trial versions
> > have no the functional restrictions, 1 min. on start
> > delay only, about 1 and 2Mb downloads.
> >
> > Good Luck with Good DOS and Euphoric programming 
> >
> > Again - visit please http://www.PhysTechSoft.com/
> >
> > Regards,
> > Igor Kachan
> > kinz at peterlink.ru
> >
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