Re: Learned Something New About Ethernet Today

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, I’m pretty sure the executable was Windows only. It had a GUI, for
one thing (not much of one, but still). I don’t 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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