Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/04/17:24:13
On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:
> Once upon a time (on 2 Feb 97 at 17:19) Ian 'DrDebug' Day said:
>
> > look too hard, now, does it? Come on, someone could write a TSR >that
> > implements it on top of FAT, either as VFAT or using look-up files >without
> > much difficulty.
> >
> > TSR? Are you on drugs? It would be far better if we were to compile
> > the components that you want into IBMDOS.SYS (or whatever). This would
> > provide the fastest system possible.
> Nope. IBMDOS.COM should be kept as small as possible, and how do you imagine
> adding up new file systems? Recompile IBMDOS.COM every time!?
>
> > And perhaps also go along the lines of Linux and have loadable modules
> > (a bit like VLMs).
> Now, that's the way to go! But, once again, we have to develop a standard for
> these drivers.
Don't think it's ever gonna happen (soon at least (I mean the stuff you
want)), but djgpp has the DXE stuff, and someone wrote a DLM library too.
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