10 Jul
2014
10 Jul
'14
8:31 a.m.
the only dos i ever used was ms-dos. also most computers i ever found used ms-dos and the
fact that all computers were all over the board with hardware configurations. some
computers had onboard controllers and audio and even on board processor and ram slots and
some computers used add on cards for everything. the other thing i find is that some add
on tape drives were never the same size as the slots that were in the computer where some
were a smaller drive with a bigger bezel and wouldnt fit in a 5.25" slot but also
were to big for a 3 1/2" slot. for a dos computer i would go with something that has
both size floppy drives, a tape drive, maxed out ram and processor, best video card it can
run, professional sound card, and a joystick port and scsi card
-----Original Message-----
From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thu, Jul 10, 2014 2:33 am
Subject: Re: best dos machine
On 10 July 2014 01:39, John Wilson <wilson at dbit.com> wrote:
Never looked into that. I was always sorry there wasn't any attempt in
DOS itself (apart from some overseas version of V4 maybe?) to do
multi-tasking,
since it would have been easy enough to do at least
what RT-11 does. I was
always careful to retry my GETBLOCK calls endlessly, just in case in the
future (or even the present, thanks to pop-up TSRs), the largest available
block turns out to already not be available afterwards, if some other thread
is nibbling away at memory while I'm trying to get some.
Did you say you used DR-DOS 8? DR-DOS had multitasking from DR-DOS 7.0
and ViewMax could act as a GUI for it. Just full-screen,
virtual-console switching type, but it worked well. IIRC though you do
need to use DR's 386 memory manager, not the Microsoft ones that you
get if you install any version of Windows later than 3.0.
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