Mail Archives: opendos/1997/03/31/02:01:53
On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, James Lefavour wrote:
> > > Sure! S-T-A-B-L-E! Mess-dos on my machine had 15..20 days uptime -
> > > and OD crashes nearly everyday! Usually QEMM excp 13..
> >
> > If you want STABLE, I mean uptime's of a year or more without
> > crashes, use Linux. To be completely honest, I've never seen a
> > QEMM Exception 13 error under Linux. :o)
> >
> Yes, Linux is stable, I am currently running RedHat's latest release
> with the kernel custom configured, etc... But there is one problem.
>
> Much of the commercial/shareware/freeware software is developed
> exclusively for Windows/dos. I have several games/programs etc. that
> are for Win95 or win 3.1 alone.
Very true. But more and more for Linux every day too.
> While Linux may include an "emulator" for dos and win3.1, it is not
> nearly complete - and the purpose of OpenDOS is to give the DOS
> community an alternative to M$'s versions. Hopefully, an alternative
> that is both stable and compatible, while superior :-)
Again very true. DOSemu is quite stable now though. I've heard
that Win 3.1 runs ok under it now.
> This is something I have been waiting for for some time. Nothing
> wrong with that is there? ;-)
No, I've been waiting for a long time for the same thing. I hope
that a free STABLE clone of '95 will come out within the next
year because I'm going to be FORCED into needing it and I REFUSE
to install M$95 period. I pray that Caldera is silently working
on OpenWindows95 (complete with sources of course) since they've
won rights to the details of M$ OS's for 10 years. Hopefully
that is enough time for Caldera to clone 95, NT, and then push
BEYOND M$ and put out THE NEXT OS. (Pun not intended on NeXT).
:o)
Long live OpenDOS!
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