Subj : Re: Freedos and Windows 3.x
To   : AKAcastor
From : j0HNNY a1PHA
Date : Wed Feb 28 2024 21:20:06

 > Are you running ArcaOS, or another version of OS/2?  Definitely
 > interested to hear more about the virtualization experiments.

Yes, running ArcaOS v5.1 on a Thinkpad T43 that I picked up for $40 on
eBay, and it installed easier than when I tried on more modern hardware
(had to use DFSee to deal with partitions on a modern PC). Wireless
doesn't work, but that's OK, it's not actually portable anyway.

ArcaOS also installs OK on Lenovo m93p, a thin/cheap computer, but it's
got a couple annoying driver issues to work around.

Advantage of modern CPU, tho, is multi-core! Didn't have the RAM spike
problems on my modern test PC -- but there is a (known) annoying issue
where windowed OS/2 and DOS consoles lock up -- it doesn't happen on
full-screen console launch though, so there is a work around. And SIO just
solves a huge problem in terms of handling incoming telnet...

I'm digging PCBoard running on the Thinkpad (other than the
constant noise, lol), and ArcaOS supports SMB and VNC, so it's easy to
access file shares and do remote admin stuff. 

Oh, I was able to get ArcaOS running on VirtualBox, but I had no luck on
ProxMox...

So far I've got the 4 DOS experiments:

1) ProxMox (hit a wall with NDIS2 driver tho and DHCP tho)
2) Dosbian (TBD - high hopes!!)
3) ArcaOS (working with OS/2 native BBS packages, real hardware)
4) Physical DOS machine (I'm cobbling together with an RTL8139 and VGA)

I *really* like physical machines, but that PC a mini-tower and just can't
see myself building multiple machines for this!

Hoping I can crack ProMox or Dosbian with RINGDOWN on the front-end :)

Cheers,



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