Mail Archives: opendos/1997/03/22/14:33:43
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> On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 23:17:09 -0500 "James Lefavour"
> <jamesl AT mail DOT albany DOT net> writes:
> >> I _love_ that idea :)
> >> Kind of like an extended command parser?
> >>
> >> ...Chambers
> >
> >Not sure exactly what you mean... but what I'm saying is that the
> >next level would not repeat the mistakes of M$. Long file names and
> >full 32bitPM would be available from the command line, and the
> >"display mode" (as in W95) would be just a layer over that, adding in
> >support for standard controls, windows, etc. When you don't
> >want/need the extra overhead, you don't load it, but you still have
> >more than full DOS functionality :-))
> >
> >Jim
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> What I meant was, it's basically a nifty looking command prompt :)
> Of course, there would be an API for windowing etc, but the graphical API
> would be the only difference between it and vanilla OD.
>
> ...Chambers
Well, generally this is correct - although I don't propose adding
Windoze compatibility until we start making the 32 bit version, some
may want 3.1 compatibility in the 16 bit version. However, I do
suggeest that as much of the functionality as possible should be
available from the "nifty looking command prompt" - of course the GUI
functions would be "layered" over it.
Since Linux and X became available, no one should say it isn't
possible, but we need enough interested people to get it done to make
it happen. Can I see a show of hands? <g>
Jim
jamesl AT albany DOT net - http://www.albany.net/~jamesl/
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