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On 10/19/2015 2:26 PM, Wiktor S. wrote:
> It's obvious that MS has no intention to bring NTVDM back to its glory.
> But sticking to Windows XP as the "last good OS" is as slow path to
> death of DJGPP.
> If there is to be any future of DJGPP (a very limited one, but still a
> future), the project has to embrace what is still alive: DOSBox and
> FreeDOS. Full compatibility may require a cooperation with those
> projects' developers, and fixing some things on their sides too, but at
> least those *can* be fixed, unlike Windows.
>
> A mid-term goal should be a successful build of DJGPP/gcc/binutils on
> FreeDOS (as I understand it doesn't work right now).

I have no problem with this; but I would prefer (if it doesn't get too 
out of hand) to maintain current compatibility with XP and MS-DOS with 
lfn (at least with the smaller projects); but FreeDOS and 
cross-compilers to be guaranteed.

Frank