[Pc_Support] MS-DOS - Win3.11

[Wise Ubuntu User Patrick]

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 23:18 -0500, JohnH wrote:
> Stupid Question Time!!!!
> 
> Can MS-DOS & Win3.11 work on any of the machines built within the last 2 or 
> three years?
> 
> I have not used either of these dinosaurs for years but I have 4 CD's with 
> loads of programs that I would like to use again.
> 
> OK, fine thses programs are severly outdated and maybe even usless, however 
> I am having a nastalgic moment and and would like to go back to the good old 
> days for a while.
> 
> Would DOS/Win see large HD's? I remember a limit of 2MB for dos which made 
> it hard to copy a lot of ZIP files to be unziped.
> 
> Any sugestions (other then "don't do it") would be greatly appreceated!!!!!
> 
> Thanks
> John H.
> pctech at htc.net 
> 
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Try your question over on the BeOS, BSD, or Linux boards,  Whooee! the
DOS emulators in those OSes run most DOS programs, games, etc.

Also, some of those older programs have migrated up to run on the latest
OSes. http://sourceforge.net 

Hard drive size limitations are a function of the capability for the
system to address based upon the width of the address buss (number of
address lines), plus the BIOS that is on the mainboard.  

Any X86 system should run DOS.  Also, those games and programs written
in DOS should run on the free Digital Research Dos 'DRDOS 7.0.2' that is
available for free download.  You can google it.

  ONE IMPORTANT CAVEAT, is that those old DOS games and utilities
sometimes ran against the system clock, so unless you re-write them,
they will execute at the speed of the system, and you will only see a
'blip' and not be able to play them, unless you run them in an emulator,
which has some mechanism in it's program to provide software
clocking... 

There are a whole lot of retro game web sites.