Mail Archives: opendos/2002/03/19/15:47:54
On 2002-03-19 Paul Burke wrote:
> I'm still confused about DrDos 7.03. I saw the same thing you
> did about licenses, but downloaded it anyway. According to the
> included doc files, they've solved the Y2K problems, among others.
Many! And there are also uncountable smaller useability
enhancements and some major new features.
> I don't think they ever did put in background serial port
> support, though. I called Novell about that, not too long
> after they released Novell DOS 7, but they didn't have any
> intention of improving the background serial port operations.
No, but search the archives of the list for various ways how
to configure your modem and the virtualization of serial port
in TASKMGR.INI for an improved performance of serial ports in
background. You can also find this being discussed in details
in the NWDOSTIP.TXT document on my web-site (MPDOSTIP.ZIP).
But, yes, there´s still room for improvement by actually
queueing serial data in the VM module.
> The only reason I haven't gone ahead with the install is that
> I can't decide whether or not it's crippleware. If it is,
> then I don't want it as an OS. :)
It´s not crippled in any way.
> I'm hoping someone on this list can tell me whether 7.03 is
> suddenly going to stop working one day for lack of a license.
No, it won´t.
>> Maybe I just should move to PC-DOS.
>
> I've never used PC-DOS. Is it anywhere near as good as
> DrDos 6 was?
This depends on what you mean by "good"? ;-)
DR DOS 6.0 already had many features not found in other DOSes,
or at least not at its time. However, since PC DOS was an OEM
version of MS-DOS, it is 99,999% compatible with MS-DOS (there
are subtle differences in some of the utilities, as well as in
API support), while DR-DOS is only 99% compatible, as it is not
based on the MS-DOS code base in any way...
But DR-DOS 7.xx memory management and multitasking is far ahead
of other DOSes, nonetheless it is more difficult to set up than
the memory management in PC DOS 2000, and the DR-DOS EMM386.EXE
is not compatible with some very modern machines with lacking
ISA-support. This would require some changes in EMM386.
Greetings,
Matthias
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