From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 22 4: 7:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.onsea.com (p66s09a03.client.global.net.uk [195.147.169.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 571BC154AD for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 04:07:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) Received: from localhost (dozprompt@localhost) by merlin.onsea.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA40607; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 12:08:29 GMT (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) X-Authentication-Warning: merlin.onsea.com: dozprompt owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 12:08:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Cliff Rowley To: Tim Tsai Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DOS? In-Reply-To: <19991222055531.A17201@futuresouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You might want to try the recent vmware port to FreeBSD which can already > boot NT. I forgot to mention, I'm not using XFree86 on this box. It's only got a 13" monitor :\ > As somebody who used to work on embedded systems (some of which were DOS > based), I feel you are wasting time with a software emulation solution. > I would strongly recommend putting together a cheap DOS only system and > a kvm (keyboard/video/mouse) switch and simply run both simultaneously. > If management has any objections simply point out the lost in productivity > of you having to fool with this stuff. Unfortunately, sometimes it's hard > to get the beancounters to understand things like this. Yes, very much so. Sometimes it's hard to keep talking to a brick wall. It too me long enough to get them to let me have a machine to run FreeBSD on for our cvs source control - just had to get rid of microsoft snailsafe. I work from home, so I dont have access to a lot of hardware, so putting another machine together is not a good option right now. I'll try doscmd, and see how I go, but I'm not too hopeful... It really does bug me that some developers develop for just linux :( Thanks Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message