To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Message-Id:	<AAVX9opG11@insect.ief.spb.su>
Organization:	Inst. of Evolutionary Physiology & Biochemistry,
	St.Petersburg
From:	pavel AT insect DOT ief DOT spb DOT su (Pavel Ozerski)
Date:	Sun, 13 Jul 97 11:57:03 +0300
Reply-To:	pavel AT insect DOT ief DOT spb DOT su
Subject:	about current attempts to make OpenDOS WIN'95 compatible

I think, the attempt to attain simple "WIN95 compatibility" for OpenDOS is
a wrong way because of:
1) Nobody can buy WINDOWS 4 without M$-DOS 7;
2) The best features of OpenDOS (TASKMGR, UNDELETE) are useless in WINDOWS
   environment, therefore using OpenDOS SIMPLELY instead MS is useless
(an answer: will do future OpenDOS UNDELETE preserve full LONG names of
deleted files too?);
Finally, 3) This way cannot solve the main problem of the present-day
tendency of OSs development: permanent increase of the hardware requirement.
I'm sure, that the better way may be the development of independent
WINDOWS-compatible graphical environment (e.g. on basis of WINE, but 32-bit) or
even though "OpenWin32S".
Note: as I know, the russian company PhysTechSoft announced to develop to
2000 year an OS, PTS-WIN 2000, compatible with WIN'95 and WARP simultaneously.
That is a cause for Caldera to think and to hasten (or try to collaborate? Its
WWW site must be http://www.pts.mipt.ru but I cann't connect for some
reason currently).

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