From: "Christopher Nelson" <paradox AT gye DOT satnet DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: FreeDOS (was: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 07:43:19 -0600
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>It suprises me that people of thinking of FreeDOS as a good future
>engine for DJGPP.  FreeDos is a 16 bits OS, with no facility
>for thread/SMP/multitask. At a time where the world is now
>turning to 64 bits and Multiple Processors, the words
>``future'' and ``FreeDOS'' should not go in the same phrase.
>No I'm not bashing DOS, nor FreeDOS, it can be a very good platform for
>a single user/multitask/desktop, if they take care of some pittfalls.
></Rant>


i don't think people are so much thinking of FreeDOS itself as a future for
DJGPP, but at least the idea of another DOS platform is comforting to them.
Besides which, if there is open source to a 16-bit DOS, some enterprising
group of people will convert it to a 32-bit protected mode DOS, undoubtedly.

in fact, i would like to do that someday in the future when finished with my
current projects.  i think it is not so much the future that they see in
FreeDOS, but a tool with which to make the tools to make the future.

    -={C}=-