[arachne] Re: PTS DOS 2000 Pro

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On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:01:13 -0400, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

> The emulation with XTCE is really good in that you can pretend that you
> are running an XT machine with two floppy drives, A: and B:.  Whether
> you want to pretend to be using DSDD 5.25" floppies or HD 1.2 MB
> 5.25" floppies or 720K or 1.44 MB 3.5" inch floppies is user-selectable.

With the downside that you can't put real disks into those pretend
drives.

> As a bonus you can even pretend to have a hard drive C:, and you can
> C:\DOS\RUN.  The downside is that you first have to upload your DOS
> stuff to a Windows machine and then download it to your palmtop Windows
> CE device by using your serial data cable and your connectivity
> software.

Hmmm... it all sounds it bit weird to me. Kinda like those virtual
reality games that are supposed to replace real life....


Regards from Greg Mayman in Adelaide, South Australia
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