Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 12:58:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Gene Buckle <geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net>
To: "Maan M. Hamze" <mmhamze AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Unoffical OpenDOS web site is up!
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> Graphics on the page?  Who cares :)
> Now, instead of the graphics, the page should have more info:
> Is opendos a 32-bit operating system?
No.
> Does it offer DMPI services (is it a dpmi server)?
Yes, via EMM386
> Caldera must have some info on the end product!  Like:  How much disk space
> would it take!
The complete install set is 6 1.44 disks and requires about 10mb of drive
space if everything is installed. (Personal Netware Server, etc..)

> Lack of this sort of info on the page makes me suspect that it is vapor
> ware :)
OOOH.  You should be flamed for crack.  I'll be nice and answer your
questions instead. ;)

> For example:
> The page mentions that it will take 4 commercial compilers and some other
> things to compile the sources!
> Why are they trying to scare people from asking or anticipating the
> sources!
Just stating a fact, not trying to scare anyone away.

> Let us be porfessional:
> Even if it takes 25 commercial compilers, just state what these compilers
> are!

Turbo C v2.0
Turbo C v3.0
Borland C v2.0
Borland C v3.1
Turbo Assembler v2.51
Turbo Assembler v4.0
Microsoft Assember v4.0
RASM86
TFTCOMP v3.0 (for dual language binary support)
TLINK v4
LINK86

> Make this info available instead of looking for someone to design graphics
> for the page!

The information wasn't made available on the page simply because it would
not apply when the sources are finally released.  I'm working on getting
the tool count down to something reasonable.  Keep in mind that Caldera
doesn't have to release the source.  They're doing it as a service to the
Internet community and computer users in general.  The sources must first
be extracted from a proprietary version control system that they are in
right now.  There are about 120 makefiles, averaging about 12k each that
have to be re-written from scratch so that the sources can be distributed
on the net.  That's the job that I'm doing, and on a volunteer basis to
boot.  Keep yer drawers on sonny.  It's coming. ;)

g.