Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/12/24/17:01:43
On Mon, 23 Dec 1996 23:13:32 -0600 "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
writes:
>On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Joe Wright wrote:
>> Colin W. Glenn wrote:
>> > Yes there is, and it does involve escape sequences, I did that a
>long
>>
>> Using the volume name in place of the idiotic C: designator would
>please
>> me no end. Assuming we are all playing some flavor of MSDOS (why
>djgpp
>> otherwise?), one of us, some of us or all of us ought to write
>shell.com
>> to replace (and eliminate for all time) COMMAND.COM forever.
>
>Actually, I wouldn't mind a MSDOS equivalment of MSDOS. I mean, with
>the
>machines we have now, you could convince the system to fold every bit
>of
>memory under the 1meg mark. That means that every application would
>be
>able to load and run, one on top of the other.
>
>
Two questions:
1) An MSDOS version of MSDOS?
2) Would this be with unlimited segments or something? How else
would it 'fold'?
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