Subj : Re: anyone uses FreeDOS?
To   : mary4
From : kirkspragg
Date : Thu Jun 27 2024 18:46:22

 ma> i am curious if anyone uses this os on their old systems

I tried it out a while back on a couple of XT class systems and dropped it for MS DOS 6.22 for a couple of reasons:
1 - Conventional memory use was higher the DOS 6.22
2 - I kept running into extra stuff the Freedos provides over MSDOS that wouldn't run due to needing a 386 to work & was just taking up space.
3 - I have no idea why, but I just could not get anything that provided network drives to work. I tried XFS, Lantastic the novell netware client for DOS & none of them could successfully mount network drives when running in Freedos.

I have not tried it on my 286 machine though. I am pretty happy with MS DOS, but I might give PC DOS 7 (IBM's dos) a go as it is supposed use even less conventional memory than MS DOS 6.

.... Prunes give you a run for your money.

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