The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option

Re:The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option by mcculley on Sunday May 15, 2022 @05:02PM (#31391086)

Maybe, but wouldn’t the customer have to know how to run QEMU? I am imagining a customer who wants to just replace an old machine while changing as little as possible.

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Re:The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option by djur on Sunday May 15, 2022 @05:39PM (#31391416)

Since this install is based on QEMU running in Linux, it would not meet that need.

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Re:The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option by mcculley on Sunday May 15, 2022 @05:57PM (#31391551)

The end user need not know it is QEMU atop Linux. They see and use DOS.

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Re:The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option by ale42 on Monday May 16, 2022 @04:20AM (#31394649)

Yes, but inside a VM. What access to real hardware (e.g. to communicate with the outside world) does the user get?

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Re:The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option by necovek on Monday May 16, 2022 @06:24AM (#31395325)

Whatever is configured with QEMU: everything if that was the use case.

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Re:The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option by ale42 on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @06:49AM (#31421189)

But it looks like their setup is not configured to give access to hardware, at least I didn't see any options on the command line.

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