Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 22:31:01 -0700 (PDT)
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To: mapson AT mapson DOT com (mapson), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: FreeDOS or OpenDOS question
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I think this thread is getting a bit off topic, but...
At 02:50  10/5/1997 GMT, mapson wrote:
>I like the idea of these OS being available... not because I love DOS
>so much, per se, but because DOS has this enviable trio of properties:
>1)an OS small enough to fit on a floppy disk, 2)has over a decade's
>wealth of some of the worlds best [game] programs to draw from, 3)
>runs on every x86 processor. Strikes me as the perfect portable OS for
>gamers- i.e., if you have Linux or NT or some peculiar system on your
>x86 machine, just pop a boot disk in, a floppy, and you can run...
>Quake, Doom, Longbow,commanche,IndyCar...
Except for the hard disk partition on which the apps themselves have to run.
>How about a souped-up version that runs 32-bit flat-memory-model, but
>still somehow handles stuff for old DOS? Is that a possibility? in the
>near future? could it still fit on a floppy? ;)
Oh dear, I thought we were past that. There was just a huge discussion of
that exact topic under the thread "32-bit DOS". Check the archives and see
what everybody had to say.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net