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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Organization: What? (Poznan, Poland)
To: Gene Buckle <geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 00:12:23 +0100
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Subject: Re: OpenDOS to be released next week!
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CC: Leath Muller <leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Once upon a time (on 14 Jan 97 at 21:27) Gene Buckle said:

> > right? If so, the whether the bugs that prevented it from running on other
> > DOSes were corrected or not?
> > 
> 
> That would follow if the software you write is free for non-commercial
> use.  I wasn't aware of any incompatibilities between EMM386 and other
> versions of DOS.  I'll ask.
When I mixed HIMEM.SYS from M$-DOG 6.22 with EMM386 from Novell DOS 7 I was 
haunted occasionally by various exceptions (no pattern, the most 'persistent' 
one was Page Fault).

> > Just to be sure: is OpenDOS based on the Novell DOS 7? If so, then I
> > hope all the incompatibilities were removed (at least in the officially
> > documented areas) 
> > 
> Even if they've not been removed yet, since the source will be soon
> available, you can be assured that those problems will vanish rather
> quickly once this crowd gets their hands on the code. ;)
Yeah... I'm already sharpening my claws ;-))

> > > I would be happy to be involved... now, wheres that fork(); :)
> > Me too - does anyone know where can I find the packet drivers 
> > specifications/format (I mean on Internet)?
> > 
> 
> You won't need those specs.  You'll just need the *driver* for whatever card
> you've got (Crynwyr driver that is).  In moving WatTCP to a TSR (that can be
> loaded high) you won't need to worry about it.  This also means that
> Internet capable programs won't be carrying the whole TCP/IP stack as part
> of the binary.
But what if I don't have a cable conection to any network? I want to write a 
packet driver for *modem*, so that dial-up connections may be established. I 
think that many people would welcome such a driver. Not to mention such a toy 
like a null-modem link driver - just to make a cheap, home TCP/IP-based 
network ;-)

> > 
> > P.S. Could we see a feature list of OpenDOS?
> > 
> 
> Hmm, let's see....
> 
> Multitasking/threading support.
COOL!
> Multitasking DOS sessions via TaskMgr  (something like DesqView)
COOL^2
> Personal Netware Server/Client (no source)
COOL^3
> NetWars IPX multi-player game.  (plays like Elite)
COOL^4
> Better memory management than PC/MS DOS. (including better than QEMM)
COOL^7!

> Drive compression via Stacker (no source)
Does anyone use it today??

> ViewMAX graphical file manager
Something like DOS Shell from DOS 4 or better (I hope)?

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