Mail Archives: opendos/2000/03/15/03:39:24
At 04:52 PM 3/14/00 +0100, Matthias Paul wrote:
>However, I do have at least some of these DOS issues from other
>sources, including (if I remember correct right from the memory)
>a full file set of DOS Plus 1.2, DR DOS 3.31, 3.35 (from various
>OEMs), various issues of DR DOS 3.41, 5.0, 6.0 (including most of
>the patches), various issues of DR PalmDOS, DR DOS Panther ,
>Novell DOS (updates 4-9 are missing from by backups, though),
>NetWare Lite, Personal NetWare, and probably all the OpenDOS 7.01,
>7.02 Betas, DR-OpenDOS 7.02, DR-DOS 7.02, and finally 7.03 issues
>and updates.
Why not offer them to Lineo? Perhaps they'd like to have some
non-mangled copies of their own....
>My personal much enhanced issues of the kernel, COMMAND, FDISK,
>FORMAT, SYS, LOADER, DISKCOPY, DISKCOMP, DOSKEY, NLSFUNC, EGA,
>COUNTRY, DISPLAY, NWCDEX, and many more, are feverishly waiting for
>Lineo to hopefully release DR-DOS under GPL (or something similar)
>so that the net community can ramp up new DOS desktop development
>for better migration and integration into a Linux and Win9x world.
>If this might become truth, I hope the potential free DR-DOS and
>existing FreeDOS developers will either team-up in friendship or
>at least will help each other in technology and resource exchange.
I don't think there's any doubt of that. Caldera's announcement
of their intentions to open-source DR DOS was greeted with great
joy and eagerness in the fd-dev list. The later retraction was
quite a disappointment.
raster AT highfiber DOT com
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