Date:	Thu, 6 Feb 92 11:19:07 EST
From:	turner AT buffalo DOT HQ DOT Ileaf DOT COM (James Turner)
To:	kerce AT xi DOT cs DOT fsu DOT edu
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	All this talk about fully-featured DJGPP
Status:	O

   Date: Thu, 6 Feb 92 09:20:27 -0500
   From: Kingsley Kerce <kerce AT xi DOT cs DOT fsu DOT edu>

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   I'm grateful to Delorie and all who made DJGPP possible -- it's been a
   lifesaver.  But is it not time for the excellent programmers involved
   to concentrate their efforts on assisting in the development of a
   desirable OS, for instance the GNU OS?  How about this 386 BSD whose
   articles have appeared in Dr. Dobbs?  Why waste time hacking on top of
   MS-DOS?!

   If we can't wait for GNU OS, etc. then there must be some way to bring
   the cost of the commercial UNIXes down far enough so that even a
   student could afford one of them.  Isn't the demand for these UNIXes
   high enough to bring the costs down?

Unfortunately, a lot of us also like/need to use standard DOS
applications like Quicken, MS-Works, etc.  I've yet to see a PC-Unix
that will run DOS applications on the same partition at the same time
as the Unix OS is running.  DJGPP is nice specifically because it
doesn't prevent me from running the DOS applications that I bought the
home machine for.

James

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