<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Simón Ruiz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com">simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Bill Franklin <<a href="mailto:bill@allfreight.com">bill@allfreight.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> We are real small, 5 employees. We want to migrate to some variant of Linux<br>
> because we have a legacy DOS application that is our main application.<br>
> Microsoft is supposedly ending support for DOS apps in Windows 8 (although<br>
> there is supposed to be some kind of emulator you can run in or<br>
> something-maybe). We currently have 8 pc’s all with Windows XP except my<br>
> wife has Windows 7. Microsoft is ending support for XP in around 2.5<br>
> years. Also, I want to upgrade stuff on my schedule in the future not on<br>
> Microsoft’s.<br>
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</div>You may want to investigate dosbox.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.dosbox.com/" target="_blank">http://www.dosbox.com/</a><br>
<a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DOSBox" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DOSBox</a><br>
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I've used it, in the past, to re-live old video games under Ubuntu.<br>
<br>
I imagine it might do the job for less video/audio intensive applications.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Simón<br>
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