Mail Archives: opendos/2001/04/19/19:38:53
Quarterdeck was swallowed by Symantec and nothing remains :=)
Neal
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florianx wrote:
>
> 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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