Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/10/05:25:31
On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:
> > > *exactly* on what do Caldera programmers work, what is scheduled for the
> > > nearest future, what is available for volunteers etc.
> >
> > Yes, there will definately have to be some kind of co-ordination
> > with Caldera for "Official" releases, however I'm sure there will
> > still be countless hacks and patches around. I'd personally like
> Yes, but what we're aiming for is a consistent OS, not a pile of patches
> fixing/improving one and the same thing. Sooner or later we'd get lost in
> that pile of litter!
Yeah, but I'm sure that there will be *some* litter regardless of
what we'd like.
> > to se a mouse driver that is written in 100% ASM and has a small
> > footprint! Also the ability to recompile that driver and take
> > out shit that most programs don't need by means of an option to
> > make or something.
> I had such a driver in mind for some time now, but couldn't find any info on
> hardware interface of the mouse device. Even Linux sources couldn't help much
> - they were to vague. Until recently I found the document on
Well if you ever implement such a mouse driver, be sure to
remember me!
> > > I'd add only two features to ext2fs - (1) a built-in encryption of data
> > > (not necessarily on the C2 level, but it'd be very useful sometimes), (2)
> > > compression-on-demand (sorta that on NTFS)
> >
> > I'm not entirely sure, but I think Linux may have those features
> > now (I read something about them in the HOWTO's). I'm not sure
> > if I read that they EXIST, or that they are easily added.
> Hmm... can you remember which HOWTO was that?
No, but it shouldn't be too hard to find. Just grep the dir.
> > I think that OpenDOS is going to inherit a LOT of cool things
> > from the wonderful world of Linux. Some of which are: ext2, and
> > other FS support, different cool shell features, etc...
> > Also, I think LINUX will benefit by bonusing on some DOS code
> > too! This will help to make DOSemu more stable, in fact I think
> > it will triple DOSemu developement.
> I think OpenDOS will adapt DOSEmu. AFAIR, that was the Caldera plan to ship
> Linux+OpenDOS bundle, wasn't it?
I believe so. I wonder how much the Linux + OpenDOS + DOSemu
package will cost.
> > > > A SINGLE API could be written to accomodate all of these problems for
> > > > once and for all. (kinda a IFS layer). This layer would report to
> > > Exactly. An structure-independent layer. But I think it should be done on
> > > the IOCTL level.
> >
> > Yes, it will have to be at the low level.
> I was just thinking about that - will the current IOCTL calls do? Of course,
> there should be some IOCTLs added which would provide the FS-specific
> information to the higher, API, layer.
Naturally.
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