FOSDEM talk next week

FOSDEM talk next week

[Bart Oldeman]

Hi,

I'll be talking about DOSEMU and FreeDOS at FOSDEM next week:
https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/dosemu_and_freedos_past_present_future/

There may not be so many people on this list any more but I'd thought
I'd reach out. If you use DOSEMU in any useful or cool setting please
let me know and I can mention it as an example (you can do so
privately too, then I can make it an anonymous example).

As far as development goes, for me mostly life with two small children
took over, but as he wrote Stas Sergeev has continued with dosemu2 so
that is where all the action happens.

Bart

Re: FOSDEM talk next week

[jeg]

Hi, Bart.

I have been using (and absolutely depending on) dosemu/freedos for
more than 15 years. I use a DOS CADD program called Generic Cadd
for the design of electronics and astronomical instruments, which
I started using probably 30 years ago. I now run 64-bit Fedora
or Ubuntu on all my machines, and run DosEmu on a 32-bit
Ubuntu virtual machine because I need the speed; the emulator
on 64-bit machines is just too slow, and the display code
did not work properly with GCadd for many years, though that
was fixed a few years ago.

I have never thanked you and Stas properly for the years of
work on the code, so please accept that thanks now.

Jim Gunn
Professor, Astrophysics (emeritus)
Princeton University



On Sun, 28 Jan 2018, Bart Oldeman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'll be talking about DOSEMU and FreeDOS at FOSDEM next week:
> https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/dosemu_and_freedos_past_present_future/
>
> There may not be so many people on this list any more but I'd thought
> I'd reach out. If you use DOSEMU in any useful or cool setting please
> let me know and I can mention it as an example (you can do so
> privately too, then I can make it an anonymous example).
>
> As far as development goes, for me mostly life with two small children
> took over, but as he wrote Stas Sergeev has continued with dosemu2 so
> that is where all the action happens.
>
> Bart
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Re: FOSDEM talk next week

[Franta Hanzlík]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 12:47:37 -0500 (EST)
jeg@astro.princeton.edu wrote:

> Hi, Bart.
> 
> I have been using (and absolutely depending on) dosemu/freedos for
> more than 15 years. I use a DOS CADD program called Generic Cadd
> for the design of electronics and astronomical instruments, which
> I started using probably 30 years ago. I now run 64-bit Fedora
> or Ubuntu on all my machines, and run DosEmu on a 32-bit
> Ubuntu virtual machine because I need the speed; the emulator
> on 64-bit machines is just too slow, and the display code
> did not work properly with GCadd for many years, though that
> was fixed a few years ago.
> 
> I have never thanked you and Stas properly for the years of
> work on the code, so please accept that thanks now.
> 
> Jim Gunn
> Professor, Astrophysics (emeritus)
> Princeton University
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2018, Bart Oldeman wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'll be talking about DOSEMU and FreeDOS at FOSDEM next week:
> > https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/dosemu_and_freedos_past_present_future/
> >
> > There may not be so many people on this list any more but I'd thought
> > I'd reach out. If you use DOSEMU in any useful or cool setting please
> > let me know and I can mention it as an example (you can do so
> > privately too, then I can make it an anonymous example).
> >
> > As far as development goes, for me mostly life with two small children
> > took over, but as he wrote Stas Sergeev has continued with dosemu2 so
> > that is where all the action happens.
> >
> > Bart
> > --

Hi Jim,
if You are using 64-bit distros, You should definitely try new Dosemu2
version - there is now new KVM CPU virtualization mode
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine ),
that makes the running of DOS programs on 64-bit Linux OS very fast.
So fast that there is no difference between 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
(And KVM support is Bart's contribution to the Dosemu project)
I would also like to thank the whole Dosemu team!

I use Dosemu/FreeDOS to run my DOS accounting program, sometime since
1.0 version (around 2000) - for almost twenty years!

Regards, Franta
--
I hope the Fedora will have a better init and no binary logs

Re: FOSDEM talk next week

[Stas Sergeev]

28.01.2018 20:47, jeg@astro.princeton.edu пишет:
>
> Hi, Bart.
>
> I have been using (and absolutely depending on) dosemu/freedos for
> more than 15 years. I use a DOS CADD program called Generic Cadd
> for the design of electronics and astronomical instruments, which
> I started using probably 30 years ago. I now run 64-bit Fedora
> or Ubuntu on all my machines, and run DosEmu on a 32-bit
> Ubuntu virtual machine because I need the speed; the emulator
> on 64-bit machines is just too slow,
Please re-check this.
Bart have contributed the KVM acceleration
to dosemu2, so this is no longer the way you describe.

Re: FOSDEM talk next week

[Bart Oldeman]

Hi everyone,

thanks very much for the feedback. It was more than I expected, so I
have plenty of material to work with -- most examples will just need
to be condensed into bullet points.

All FOSDEM talks are recorded, see https://video.fosdem.org/

Cheers,
Bart

Re: FOSDEM talk next week

[Damien Moore]

A bit late for your talk but I thought the list members might be amused
at my use of DOSEMU which is to back up a Psion-3 personal organiser. It
works like this. The proprietary Psion link software (©1991) runs on
FreeDOS via DOSEMU (computer operating system is Debian 8) and
communicates using RS232 at 9600bps via a standard USB-Serial hardware
module which in turn is connected to the proprietary Psion hardware
interface which plugs directly into the Psion-3. I have been using the
Psion as an address file and cash book for the last 25 years and have
yet to find anything to match it.


Damien Moore



On 28/01/18 06:43, Bart Oldeman wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'll be talking about DOSEMU and FreeDOS at FOSDEM next week:
> https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/dosemu_and_freedos_past_present_future/
> 
> There may not be so many people on this list any more but I'd thought
> I'd reach out. If you use DOSEMU in any useful or cool setting please
> let me know and I can mention it as an example (you can do so
> privately too, then I can make it an anonymous example).
> 
> As far as development goes, for me mostly life with two small children
> took over, but as he wrote Stas Sergeev has continued with dosemu2 so
> that is where all the action happens.
> 
> Bart
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