To: Myknees AT aol DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 07:17:52 -0600
Subject: Re: OpenDOS
Message-ID: <19980112.074302.10046.0.Phil.man@juno.com>
References: <7a3a21d1 DOT 34b971cf AT aol DOT com>
From: phil DOT man AT juno DOT com (Philip A Lettkeman)
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Ever since version 7.00 (I think) of OpenDOS (currently at 7.02) it has
had a BootLoader that will recognize Win95.  It will set it's boot menu
up to boot normally to win95 or to OpenDOS.  You can also have it
recognize OS/2, and Unix flavors from what I understand, but I've never
bothered to try. 
The installation under Win95 is very straight forward.  Even I did it. 
All you do is make the floppies using the included utility in the
download.  Then you boot to command prompt of Win95 and put in disk 1 and
install.  As I said it does the configuring for you for the bootloader. 
It allows alot of flexibility for memory management, you can do that
during setup or after you boot to the OS for the first time.  

What I think is nice is that it is very much like the djgpp community
trying to constantly improve the O/S.  They are very open to suggestions
from customers who use the product and maintain a mailing list for it. 
You can even download the main source code and change things for yourself
and then upload the changes to them to see if they want to include them
in the next release.  I'll tell you that the biggest thing missing is an
X-Windows type GUI (sort of like windows but more flexible).  I think it
would be great if some of the DJGPP programmers worked on this type of a
project.  Imagine, DOS with the flexibility of Linux, without having to
M$ Win95 (or any M$ O/S product) on the system anywhere!!!!!  Oh well, I
digress.  I stayed up too late last night and am to prone to daydreaming.
 
 


Thanks,
Philip Lettkeman    phil DOT man AT juno DOT com

"Every man has his price.  Mine just happens to be the love of my
children."

On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 20:28:46 EST Myknees <Myknees AT aol DOT com> writes:
>In a message dated 98-01-11 13:31:36 EST, you write:
>
>> Has anyone here attempted to try the multitasking capabilities of 
>the
>>  DPMI of OpenDOS for this purpose?  This version of DOS has brought 
>"TRUE"
>>  multitasking.  It can be found at www.caldera.com.
>>  
>
>This question  isn't worth posting, but...
>If you are running Win95 & DOS7, and you want to retain Win95 on your 
>machine,
>then wouldn't installing OpenDOS be as much trouble as, say, 
>installing Linux?
>
>--Ed (Myknees)
>