From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dukecmmtar01.coxmail.com ([68.99.120.48]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1JV9pl-0004gn-00 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:19:49 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.100] (really [70.166.17.50]) by dukecmmtar01.coxmail.com (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20080229181918.QLPB16882.dukecmmtar01.coxmail.com@[192.168.0.100]> for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:19:18 -0500 Message-ID: <47C84CB2.4050601@baechler.net> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:19:30 -0800 From: Tony Baechler User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: More about DOS systems References: <313072.74729.qm@web65411.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <313072.74729.qm@web65411.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:19:50 -0000 Cleverson wrote: > I don't know how Provox compares to other DOS screen reader, but as far > as I know, it's the only open source one. Hence, I would also enjoy it > being able to speak through the ESpeak soft synth, especially because > it's the only synth capable of speaking Brazilian Portuguese that has a > DOS version. > > Hi, I think you're right. I don't know of any other open source screen readers for DOS. One thing I can say is that Provox is very small. It's rather old though and doesn't have some features of other screen readers. However, I had to use it once when I had a low memory situation and it definitely seems to take the smallest amount of RAM. I should also add that I never really took the time to learn it so perhaps I missed some key features. > Besides it, in addition to FreeDOS, there is another DOS that's free > for non commercial use. It is Enhanced DR-DOS (EDR-DOS). According to > its author, its kernel supports pre-emptive multitasking. See: > http://www.drdosprojects.de/ > > and: > http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php > Yes, but it has a few issues. First, it is not free. It's freeware but not free software. Second, I don't think it's as stable as FreeDOS. I ran OpenDOS for a while which is I think the same as DR-DOS and it worked well enough but wasn't as stable for me. Finally, FreeDOS is always being expanded and I think it will eventually have multitasking support.