From: walt121 AT my-dejanews DOT com Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: FreeDOS (was: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 04:45:31 GMT Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion Lines: 31 Message-ID: <7fu6la$cqs$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.252.8.53 X-Article-Creation-Date: Sun Apr 25 04:45:31 1999 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.08 [en] (Win95; I; 16bit) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x3.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 208.252.8.53 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In article , alainm AT news DOT mcgill DOT ca (Alain Magloire) wrote: > It suprises me that people of thinking of FreeDOS as a good future > engine for DJGPP. The reason is because DOS is being phased out by Micro$oft. Windows 2000, according to the magazines, will not have DOS capability. Therefore, unless DJGPP evolves to work under Windows 2000, it is dead. If an updated, 16/32-bit multitasking DOS-like OS is included with DJGPP, and DJGPP executables include a run-time subset of this OS, its life is extended. > 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. But if a large subset of the potential users and contributors to the project say that they need 32-bit capability, along with multitasking and multithreading, I'm sure that FreeDOS will evolve in that direction. Otherwise, someone will just have to start from scratch and create a freely distributable, commercially usable C / C++ development system for Win 2000. It is certain that M$ won't do that. -- SPAM BLOCKING IN EFFECT: Only those in my address book can send me mail. I've got an idea: let's sue all the lawyers and operate on all the doctors. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own