WordStar’s inclusion with the Osborne 1 computer made the program become the standard for much of the word-processing market. It was published by MicroPro International, and written for the CP/M operating system but later ported to MS-DOS. Pls see the attached Post I have put in many Forums to recount the limitations of my old hardware listed above. WordStar is a word processor application that had a dominant market share during the early- to mid-1980s. MS DOS 6.22 with QBasic 1.0 and Foxpro 2.5a for DOS and Wordstar 4 have all served me extremely well, better than I can get from Windows, Visual Basic, Visual Foxpro, MS Access, MS Word etc., - small footprints, near-instant loading and easily maintainable by me.īut given the limitations of my old hardware listed above, I would like to run them all on my new desktop - Dell Alienware Aurora ALX with Intel Core i7 CPU GHz - 12 GB RAM and Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. How do I get Foxpro 2.5a for DOS and Wordstar 4 inside this MS DOS VM ? Should I open the VM and then install Foxpro 2.5a for DOS and Wordstar 4 in the virtual HDD?įor over thirty years, I have been using the above OS MS DOS 6.22 and DOS-based Apps like Foxpro 2.5a for DOS and Wordstar 4 on Intel 286 onwards to P4 PCs with hard disks of 150 MB onwards to an 8 GB partition in a 40 GB HDD - managing with base memory of 64 K aided by himem.sys and EMM386.exe (Though the system RAM has been upto 512 MB!) and OS only MS DOS 6.22 or dual boot with Windows Work Group 3.11. Do I have to create an MS DOS VM every time I need it or will it be stored (hibernate) in my Host OS's Physical Hard Disk with a shortcut on my Host's Start Menu / desktop so I can call it easily at system startup or anytime later - like we do for Windows XP mode of Windows Virtual PC in Windows 7? It worked MS DOS 6.22 Commands and Batch files as also QBasic 1.0. I have installed VmWare Player and created an MS DOS VM in my new desktop - Dell Alienware Aurora ALX with Intel Core i7 CPU GHz - 12 GB RAM and Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. Googolplex Thanx for VmWare Player! Marvellous indeed!

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