From:	"Pedro Cardoso" <pcardoso AT mail DOT telepac DOT pt>
To:	"djgpp AT delorie DOT com" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 97 22:34:34
Reply-To:	"Pedro Cardoso" <pcardoso AT mail DOT telepac DOT pt>
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: 32bit DOS.
Message-ID:	<19970915223510.AAA31159@gfn1-p9.telepac.pt>

 regarding this thread, there was some time ago a similar talk in the demoscene:
 the demOS project. it would be a 32-bit OS (though not DOS), designed to give 
 complete hardware acesss, soundcard drivers, video drivers and a command line
 interface, all to run demos at the fastest possible speed.

 it wasn't released (i guess it wasn't even started), mainly because someone 
 realised that noone would install a new OS just to view/code demos.

 a 32bit dos would be cool to have, but I guess it isn't the only choice.. why
 re-invent the wheel one more time, with something as critical as a OS? why not
 stick with an existing 32-bit OS? for those who do not like Win95/NT, there are
 more 32bit OSs. I use OS/2 Warp and I love it.. I do all my DJGPP programming
 under it.. I only wish it had dos long filename support on HPFS partitions, where I
 have DJGPP installed... but this is a limitation of OS/2, not DJGPP fault... 
 coming to think of it, should be easy for someone to enable LFN support in HPFS
 drives... volunteers? :)


 || pedro jose' da silva cardoso, garfield / rd
 || pcardoso AT mail DOT telepac DOT pt
 || djgpp - os/2 warp - impulse tracker - gravis ultrasound - demoscene
 || "a sufficiently high level of technology is indistinguishable from 
 || magic." -- arthur c. clarke



 || pedro jose' da silva cardoso, garfield / rd
 || pcardoso AT mail DOT telepac DOT pt
 || djgpp - os/2 warp - impulse tracker - gravis ultrasound - demoscene
 || "a sufficiently high level of technology is indistinguishable from 
 || magic." -- arthur c. clarke

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