• Re: Learned Something New About Ethernet Today

    From Kerr-Mudd, John@admin@127.0.0.1 to comp.misc,alt.folklore.computers on Sun Jul 20 10:01:15 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.folklore.computers

    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 03:10:31 -0000 (UTC)
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:31:06 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:

    Do they have an MS-DOS or FreeDOS option available?

    I specifically suggested trying FreeDOS, as I understand that is a common thing to bundle with server hardware in lieu of a full-fat, full-price OS.

    Sadly, IrCOm pretty sure the executable was Windows only. It had a GUI, for one thing (not much of one, but still). I donrCOt think you can build Windows executables that can also work as DOS command-line-only
    executables ...

    There is/was a guy over in erm some other group alt.os.development ? who claim(s/ed) to have xcompiled stuff.

    DOS TUI was a thing for a bit - prior to Borland and Norton IBM went
    overboard at the start of OS/2 with a set of "standards" - Common User Interface? I think the only product that implemented it was PASF/PC.

    xpost to afc for better memories
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    Bah, and indeed Humbug.
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