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From:	cssl AT geocities DOT com
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To:	Guti <guti AT qsystems DOT es>, opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 1998 14:33:49 GMT0BST
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Subject:	Re: Updated suggestions (01-10-1998)
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 > Support for Windows 9x VFAT (good work with the betas of
EXT-2 could be REALLY interesting, too. Or UMSDOS...

 > Include the 'Starting Caldera DR DOS...' message using color 10 (Caldera 
 > Green) like in Mathias Paul IBMBIO.COM;
What about making it user-selectable ? :-)

 > Try to compress DR DOS files using PKLITE 2.01 (or later)
Why not UPX, then ? AFAIK it's the SFX compressor with the best 
compression ratio around...

 > TaskMgr should implement multitasking for 8086+ and not only task 
 > switching. Anyway it should be optimized in speed and memory consumed.
I think that's quite hard. 8086 doesen't provide a mechanism to protect 
memory areas. Worse, they are quite slow, so a context switch might use 
too much time, making programs run TOO slow...

 > What about including newer STACKER (Eg. version 4.10) and not STACKER 
 > 3.10? (guti AT bbs-ce DOT uab DOT es).
Including 3rd party utilities could raise costs...

BYtE,
 Diego.

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