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by **Al Fran** » Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:03:55

Need to get some old DOS applications up and running and make them
accessible via the Internet and Telnet. I recall OS/2 was a good operating
system to try and do something like this. Can it be done with Linux. Any
good information sources out there for some direction. Pro's and Con's
versus doing it in OS/2.

by **Travis Case** » Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:36:32

> Need to get some old DOS applications up and running and make them
> accessible via the Internet and Telnet. I recall OS/2 was a good
> operating
> system to try and do something like this. Can it be done with Linux. Any
> good information sources out there for some direction. Pro's and Con's
> versus doing it in OS/2.

It may or may not be doable with Linux -- it depends on the apps. DOSemu
will emulate DOS on Linux, but it can be a bit of a CPU hog, and it's not
compatible with all DOS applications. Only thing I can say is to try it
and see.

I can't compare it to OS/2, never having messed with OS/2.

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by **Terry Port** » Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:12:12

Travis Casey went insane and wrote the following
on his bedroom wall with an old crayon:

>> Need to get some old DOS applications up and running and make them
>> accessible via the Internet and Telnet. I recall OS/2 was a good
>> operating
>> system to try and do something like this. Can it be done with Linux. Any
>> good information sources out there for some direction. Pro's and Con's
>> versus doing it in OS/2.

>It may or may not be doable with Linux -- it depends on the apps. DOSemu
>will emulate DOS on Linux, but it can be a bit of a CPU hog,

However one can limit the cpu hogging in the dosemu config.

Quote:> and it's not
>compatible with all DOS applications. Only thing I can say is to try it
>and see.

I've an article in an old Linux Journal of a police department in an eastern
bloc country doing exactly the above, dos app under dosemu, accessed via
telnet.

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DOS apps running on Linux via Telnet

DOS apps running on Linux via Telnet

DOS apps running on Linux via Telnet

DOS apps running on Linux via Telnet