From:	mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Date:	Thu, 30 Jan 1997 10:26:14 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To:	mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
To:	Sho Nakagama <sho AT tannis DOT sho DOT net>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: OpenDOS
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On 28 Jan 1997, Sho Nakagama wrote:

> After that I switched to Novell DOS, and it definitely had problems
> with a few games, and I thought the multi-tasking was kinda shaky,
> but I never really spent a lot of time with it, since I had pretty 
> much competely switched to Linux by then.

Cool!  Another Linux advocate!  We should convince caldera to
flawlessly integrate DOS into Linux, and maybe we wont need DOSEMU.

> As an interesting note for several editions of DOSEMU I constantly got
> a system load of 1.00 whe using the MSDOS kernel/shell when idle, but
> switching to the DRDOS kernel/shell dropped it back to .10 (that was
> on a 386DX40)

Hmm, I'll have to test that out with my setup.

> I think a lot of people are like me, only ocassionally use DOS and
> Windows and would much rather use an open product.  More importantly
> most of us are praying for direct ext2fs access. (hint)

I TRIPLE that motion!  I'd actually PAY MONEY for OpenDOS for personal
home use if it had ext2fs built in!

> Viewmax was pretty cool, I was never aware of any applications for
> its API though.  It sure beat the hell out of MSDOS 5's DOSHELL.

Well, if you split that word up you get:  DOS HELL

And that says it all.  :o)


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