[juneau-lug] I Really mean DOS

  • From: "Zachary Family" <dzachary@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 22:14:27 -0800

I really mean DOS.  Yes, there are people in the world who still work at the
DOS prompt and resist the world of WINDOWS.

DOS as in 6.22.

At work our bookkeeping software still runs on DOS and most of our music
software runs on DOS.  I write the software in Turbo Pascal 6.0. The sound
cards that we use (Antex) have drivers for both DOS and Windows.  The DOS
version runs circles around the Windows version.  DOS is so much faster than
Windows, you don't have to mess with a mouse, if something slows the
computer down you can't blame the 'other program', and you can do fantastic
things with interrupts and many many serial ports and lots of bit mapped I/O
ports to control things and handshake with the real world.

So, anyway.  I have a number of DOS ONLY computers that are our workhorses.
I would like to be able to store the data (sound files) on a LINUX server.
That takes SAMBA to make it work.

At this point in time, I have been able to get SAMBA working to the point
that Win 98 machines are able to see Linux and Linux is able to see the Win
98 machines on the network.

I have a few Win 3.11 machines (no win 95), and a whole bunch of DOS ONLY
machines.  When you run DOS on a pentium machine the programs really scream
along!!!!! Lightening fast!

Dan



----- Original Message -----
From: James Zuelow <jfzuelow@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 9:35 PM
Subject: [juneau-lug] Re[2]: Welcome


|
| On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 20:19:05 -0800 Zachary Family <dzachary@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
|
| >
| > Wow. It worked.
| >
| > Hi, Guys.  By the way, Hans introduced me to the group.
| >
| > Dan
| >
|
|   He's always causing trouble that way.  Gotta watch him.
|
|   Re your previous message about linking DOS and Linux.  Do you really
| mean DOS, or do you mean Windows?  I've never played with a DOS SMB
| package, although I guess that one must exist somewhere (a DOS boot
| floppy with network support?).
|
| --
| Cheers,
|
| James
|
|

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