Discussion on:
View:
Show:
I called it Doss Hell for all the *.TMP files that it would leave on the HD.
Amazing...
We wrote programs back then that used MSDOS 3.1 and Novell Advanced Netware 1.0 for producing multi-user versions of the application for small businesses in the jewelry market.
It used two 5-1/4" floppies. The a: floppy drive contained the program and the inventory and the second b: drive was used to read and write to a set of floppies that contained the supplier and customer transactions.
Fantastic that we could do so much with such limited computer capacity...
We wrote programs back then that used MSDOS 3.1 and Novell Advanced Netware 1.0 for producing multi-user versions of the application for small businesses in the jewelry market.
It used two 5-1/4" floppies. The a: floppy drive contained the program and the inventory and the second b: drive was used to read and write to a set of floppies that contained the supplier and customer transactions.
Fantastic that we could do so much with such limited computer capacity...
As my AMIGA!!!
Workbench 1.3 was graphical from the start, and had a spiffy shell built right in. It could multitask well, and curiosly, it's incarnation of Microsoft Basic was the most advanced thing Microsoft had ever made up to that point.
Sort of a Great Grandpa of Visual Basic, you could write your basic code in one window, and run it in the one next to it. Pretty cool, actually. I always kinda wished MS had kept making that BASIC later into the Amiga's life.
However, this is still a great little piece of PC computer history
Workbench 1.3 was graphical from the start, and had a spiffy shell built right in. It could multitask well, and curiosly, it's incarnation of Microsoft Basic was the most advanced thing Microsoft had ever made up to that point.
Sort of a Great Grandpa of Visual Basic, you could write your basic code in one window, and run it in the one next to it. Pretty cool, actually. I always kinda wished MS had kept making that BASIC later into the Amiga's life.
However, this is still a great little piece of PC computer history
I'm having trouble with my command prompt, so I'd like to get an older version, because I'd imagin they're easier to manage.
Hacker 3, Out!!
Hacker 3, Out!!
Is that a typo about support for a 2gbyte hard drive. As far as I know gigabytes came out in 1990's.....around 1996 for PCs.
I can't imagine why anyone would want to install MS-DOS 4, but just in case someone wasn't around then ... Microsoft originally planned on stopping DOS at version 3.3. IBM came out with PC-DOS 4 which had a better interface. Lots of users were setting it up to run on non-IBM machines.
Eventually MS licensed **IBM's** version basically unaltered. IT HAD HUGE PROBLEMS! IBM did a massive rewrite that introduced all sorts of bugs. The software was SO bad that many third-party vendors said they would not support use of their software on DOS 4. It caused system crashes, damage to the file system and all sorts of catastrophes.
If you need to use some form of DOS, either use 3.3 or 5 or 6.
Eventually MS licensed **IBM's** version basically unaltered. IT HAD HUGE PROBLEMS! IBM did a massive rewrite that introduced all sorts of bugs. The software was SO bad that many third-party vendors said they would not support use of their software on DOS 4. It caused system crashes, damage to the file system and all sorts of catastrophes.
If you need to use some form of DOS, either use 3.3 or 5 or 6.
Just for kicks, I would love to run one of my early copies of CP/M or DOS. I have one game CD which I used for our daughter, when she was three and I would love to surprise her by running it now!
Unless you already run a VM, I suggest that you try running the game via an installation of DOSBox 0.74
I am running several VMs under Win7 Ultimate.
I may try your suggestion, however.
Thanks,
Dave
I may try your suggestion, however.
Thanks,
Dave
- Keyboard Shortcuts:
- Prev
- Next
- Toggle
