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Stargazer wrote:
> 
>   Gautier DOT deMontmollin AT maths DOT unine DOT ch wrote:
> > What new functionalities compared to, say, DR-DOS
> > multitasking kernel, that took years to be debugged ?...
> 
>    I don't think there's something principally new to be done about
> DOS, at least as I see it. My system currently runs on top of DOS and
> is not bound to any specific vendor or version. It takes like 200 K of
> memory and doesn't impose further system requirements.

Now that is what I love to hear! Thus I can use whatever DOS turns me on
(right now that's DRDOS), but I can use your product too. Excellent,
Perfect, Wonderful!! Where do we get it?
 
>    The most significant difference probably is that I'm still flexible.
> I'm not sure by now that I want to develop a whole DOS package. I can
> customize a multitasking solution to a legacy DOS-based system or
> custom DOS-based embedded system rather than pull you to use something
> given and unchangeable.

Also sounds good. I don't think reinventing DOS is so much called for as
making DOS more useful to the modern computing era.

Now if DRDOS did FAT32 and LFNs, it would be perfect too :)

~REZ~