DR-DOS, was Re: TurboCNC and general computer questions

At 09:35 AM 10/16/2001 -0700, Carol & Jerry Jankura wrote:

>What about DR-DOS? I understand that it is now a "free" OS for noncommercial

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>MS-DOS. Then, there's also Novell DOS-7 which, at one time, had a
>multitasker included with it. Too bad that these OS's lost out to the

Actually, DR-DOS and Novell DOS are the same thing (Novell bought up DR-DOS
and then Lineo spun off from Novell and so on and so forth.) The latest
released version is 7.03, and it is still available for downloading, along
with documentation for a slightly earlier version (7.01).

I haven't run TurboCNC under DR-DOS, but I have run CNC Pro, with no
problems at all. You don't want to have multitasking loaded, but task
switching works (i.e. I had CNC Pro as one task, a command line as another
task, and I could pause CNC Pro in the middle of a program, task switch to
a text editor in the other task, do some editing and saving files, then
switch back to CNC Pro and resume the cut).

Two useful links are http://www.drdos.org and http://www.drdos.net , both
of which are "unofficial"--not connected with Lineo.

Best regards,

Randy

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