Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/11/06:57:26
On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:
> > > 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.
> True. But, fortunately, those working on the project will not hae to be
> worried with the rubbish.
True, but it will nonetheless confuse many people. Oh well, I
guess that is one of the disadvantages of an Open Development
model.
> > > 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 still don't know how to *detect* the mouse hardware.
Look in the gpm sources, or somewhere in the DOSemu source tree.
> > > > 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.
> AFAIK it'll be free, or at most at the media price. The only commercial
> piece, in my understanding, will be the Caldera Desktop for Linux, am I
> right?
If it is free, or at the media price, then count me in!
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