Subj : Re: windows 10/32bit
To   : Gamgee
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Oct 19 2025 08:58:46

-=> Gamgee wrote to Exodus <=-

 Ex> Good for you.  Atleast that has "real DOS" to run the BBS in and not
 Ex> some bullshit emulated crap of linux.

 Ga> OS/2 is "real DOS"?

Yes, and more. You could run OS/2's DOS in a window, or run VDMs with
multiple versions of DOS or multiple configurations.

I ran LANTastic in a DOS virtual machine, loading MS-DOS 6 and the
LANTastic DOS drivers. That window could talk to my c: drive and talk to
the BBS running DOS.

The beauty of OS/2 was a gateway to OS/2 native binaries. I was running
Maximus, BinkleyTerm and Squish, with TimEdit and a bunch of other
utilities under DOS. Moved it all to an OS/2 window, then replaced the
binaries with OS/2 binaries and the BBS chugged along in its window,
barely making a dent in my system resources. This was back when a 486/66
with 16 MB of RAM was decent.


 
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