Re: [Freedos-user] chkdsk for fat32!

[dmccunney <den...@gm...>]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Bob Schwier <sch...@ya...> wrote:
> Is there a repository for eight bit DOS and utilities?

I think you mean "16 bit".  8 bit is usually used to refer to
predecessor micros running things like CP/M.

Technically, the 8088 CPU DOS used 20 bit addressing, with a total
address space of 1MB.  The PC reserved memory over 640KB for the
system, resulting in the infamous 640KB RAM limit, and various
convolut4ed methods of getting around it.

There are an assortment of places you can still get old DOS software.
A lot of open source code is collected in the FreeDOS repository, at
http://www.freedos.org/software/

Other useful DOS sites include:

Klaus Meinhard's 4DOS Info site, primarily devoted to the 4DOS
COMMAND.COM replacement bundled with FreeDOS, but with links to other
DOS sites
http://www.4dos.info/

Doctor DOS Betamax, an attempt at a comprehensive DOS information and link site
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/DOS-Head.html

Free Software for DOS - An archived version of a site originally
created by Richard Green, and subsequently taken over and expanded by
the late Steve Adelewitz.
http://www.bttr-software.de/freesoft/

Free Software for DOS - After Steve's death, Richard Green resurrected
his original site
http://reimagery.com/fsfd/index.htm

There are an assortment of other collections of old DOS software out
there, and Google is your friend.  (A lot is of questionable value
now, as it was originally issued as shareware, but can no longer be
registered to get full working copies.)

Old DOS software still runs in a console window in the virtual DOS
session under Windows through Win XP. (and Win7 if you have a 3w2 bit
copy of it.)  IT will not run on current 64 bit machines with 64 bit
versions of Windows, because support was dropped for 16 bit
applications.  To run them, you need to run a virtual machine like
Virtual Box, and run the 16 bit apps in it. .
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Dennis
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