Mail Archives: djgpp/1992/02/06/12:33:03
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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