Mail Archives: opendos/2001/04/19/12:15:57
Hi!
>> In an open source program no problem. BTW: Datalight ROM-DOS also supports
>> FAT32 and LFN, so that
>> shouldn't be that problem.
>>
> [da Silva, Joe]
>
> Are you sure about that open-source bit? For instance,
> InfoZIP and Ghostscript have both deleted support for
> LZW decompression, because of the Unisys patent ...
Mh...the source can be published...if a binary...I don't know....
>
> As for Datalight ROM-DOS, their web site does not
> provide a lot of information. However, it seems fairly
> clear that this is only available for OEMs.
I don't think, that the information is so bad. Yes, it is mostly for OEMs, but also for
desktop it is useful.
>
> Furthermore, there is no information about the origins
> of ROM-DOS ... but all the clues indicate that this is
> actually "our old friend" ;-) M$-DOS !!! From this fact
> (?), we can deduce the following :
They said on their web page, that they developed all of the stuff. I also don't think, that they would
have such nice features, if they would have bought M$-DOS.
> 2. This does not provide as much free conventional
> memory as DR-DOS 7.0X, partly because the
> kernel is very large, partly because it doesn't have
> the DPMS "goodies".
DPMS is a very nice feature...but a OS will never have all features it could have :)
>> >Is Free-DOS any good? How advanced is it on these issues?
>>
>>
>> FreeDOS will (I think) never have such a good memory manager, Taskmanager
>> and DPMS server. DPMI, yes....there are many avaiable :)
>>
> [da Silva, Joe]
>
> We have previously established that the Novell and
> OpenDOS 7.01 DPMS servers can be supplied free
> with DPMS clients, so that may solve one problem.
The only problem is, that it only supports 64MB (I read, so maybe i am wrong).
>
> As for Taskmanager, all this ever did for me was
> lock-up the PC, so I wouldn't miss this too much. :-/
> Well ... as a task switcher it seems stable - it's just
> the multi-tasking that has never worked for me ...
I think, DOS needs a taskmanager, why? Most people like it and who of the windows user
would ever use DOS without Taskmanager? Ok...I know... ;)
>
> WRT a memory manager - I wonder, what's the status
> of QEMM ? If this is a discontinued product, perhaps
> the copyright owners (Quarterdeck?) could be persuaded
> to release it as "freeware" or even "open-source". Would
> this benefit FreeDOS for memory management?
Some people have said, that the source code is lost etc. I also think, that we should contact the company, but i haven't
found any contact address where I got answerd.
bye, flox
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