Subject: Re: [Free]DOS port?
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Nov 07 2001 - 07:44:17 CST
Hi John,
AbiWord requires at least 16 Megabytes of RAM. With that and a
stripped down Linux with the gtk-only abiword you *might* get somthing
usable.
I can't think of any of the current developers who would be interested in
doing a dos port.
Cheers
Martin
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, John H. Raines, Jr. wrote:
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> I would like to add that a DOS port would not be useless and pointless. I
> have many friends which have only one modern computer, which mean that the
> family must timeshare the useage. They have however often an old 486 in
> their attic.
> If they could use it together with dos to make their wordprocessing it
> would
> be very nice.
>
> So, it is not only a "see if it can be done" and "see if I can do it"
> thing,
> it is in fact also a quite useful thing. Not to mention the usefulness in
> the 3rd world, where I believe modern computers are a luxuary.
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> I don't know if a port to DOS is very practical for a GUI intensive application like AbiWord. However, in relation to your point, you may want to go to www.freedos.org which is developing a GPL version of DOS. Although the current offering is beta 7, or something like that, the offering is quite mature having been in development for years. In addition, they have tons of links to various DOS programs that are available for free (download, etc.). One of the stated purposes of FreeDOS is to provide an OS for older hardware (there are other uses of DOS also). Hopefully you can something useful there for reviving an old computer.
>
> Regards,
> J. Raines
>
>
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