Mail Archives: opendos/2001/04/19/10:21:18
Hi!
>> I think the most serious problem with FreeDOS is that there
>> is only a handful of people, who have solid knowledge of
>> DOS internals. Developing a new DOS now implies the
>> serious risk that many of the known peculiarities in older
>> DOS issues and older DOS applications are long forgotten,
>> but by ignoring them, one will never be able to design and
>> develop a 100% compatible DOS...
>>
> [da Silva, Joe]
>
> You're quite right. That's why the DR-DOS kernel is
> the most important thing to open-source. Most of the
> utilities would not need such specialist knowledge,
> nor require so much manpower ...
Yes... and the memory manager (emm386+dpms) and the taskmanager, I think.
Because FreeDOS f.e. will never have such a good memory manager. Only if QEMM and Desqview
would be opensource...but I don't think that this could ever happen.
Bye, flox
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