Re: Good FreeDOS (was Good Russian DOS)
- Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Jul 03, 2004
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On 3 Jul 2004, at 23:16, David Jarvis wrote: > > > 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 > > > On 2 Jul 2004 at 18:07, Igor Kachan wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > >