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Date:      Wed, 22 Dec 1999 12:08:29 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Cliff Rowley <dozprompt@onsea.com>
To:        Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DOS?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912221205020.40600-100000@merlin.onsea.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991222055531.A17201@futuresouth.com>

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> 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



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