From:	sho AT tannis DOT sho DOT net (Sho Nakagama)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: OpenDOS
Date:	28 Jan 1997 21:13:41 GMT
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In article <Pine DOT LNX DOT 3 DOT 93 DOT 970128072746 DOT 28611K-100000 AT web DOT wa DOT net>, Gene Buckle wrote:
>>  Might be possible, but he made it sound liek the OS would blow up the
>> computer if it wasn't MS-DOS, all it does is warn, and truth be known,
>> DR. DOS was never 100% MS-DOS compatable so the warning was called for.
>> I never ran across any probelms under windows, but I only use windows,
>> to this day, for filmanager and Works. 
>> 
>
>My understanding with DRDOS is that from v6 on there has been 100%
>compatibility.
>

I used DRDOS when it first came out until about 2 years ago and I
never had a problem.  It ran Windows for Workgroups and Microsoft
Office 4.2 with no problem at all. (previous to that it ran Win 3.0
and Wordperfect with no prob...before that I never ran Windows)

The only source of any incompatiblity I ever had was Superstor, because
the Wing Commander (v1) installation didn't like the compressed drive
I was trying to install it to.

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.

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)

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)

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.


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