Mail Archives: opendos/1997/04/17/18:01:11
> >Hmm... You cannot treat these two products separately. Caldera also has a
> >product called OpenLinux, I *suspect* (it's my personal opinion, of
> >course) that OpenDOS *might* be merget into OL as a native "emulator".
>
> By having the sources to a kernal available, writting DosEmu would probably
> become a far easier task... As well as being able to modify parts of the
> (emulated) OS which don't fit in well with the new environment.
This would be good - something I've wanted for a while is a DOS
emulator instead of just a PC emulator.
It could then be extended to check for "bad" disk access and TSR
activity, making it not only a good virus-immune system but one that
would spot infected programs (even new viruses) before being introduced
to organisations. Tis would make it very popular (with everyone except
the virus writers).
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