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From: "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have AT havenone DOT cmm>
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Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 16:57:36 -0400
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"Rugxulo" <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com> wrote in message
news:6dd4831d-0c82-4ced-9b69-993066ef4168 AT e1g2000yqe DOT googlegroups DOT com...
>
> I just now noticed that Elvis/Win32 works under Japheth's latest HX!
>

Yeah, I tried to run something (QEMU? DOSBox?) with Japheth's HX a couple of
years ago on an old machine.  IIRC, that machine wouldn't run it.
(Insufficient memory?)  I should try this machine.

Oh! A month back the FreeDOS-32 webpage was updated by one of the project's
authors: Salvo Isaja.  So, maybe the stalled-for-a-few-years-now project is
officially restarted.  I'm a bit confused about their OS design, but
everything they did seemed to work.  If FreeDOS' kernel and command
interpreter had been "C only" or "mostly in C", it might've been possible to
port it to 32-bit.  I've found a bunch of bits n' parts, and pieces, other
than FreeDOS-32, that could be used as a start to make a GPL'd 32-bit DOS in
C.  I can't seem to locate enough for a PD (Public Domain) DOS though.  Of
course, it'd be nice if one could create a 32-bit DOS using a mature
project, like DOSBox PC emulator or a DOS "dosbox" using the DOSEMU PM
monitor - perhaps with HX...  However, there are always a bunch of problems
that seem to need to be resolved: assembly or C++ code, license
incompatibilities such as GPL v2.0 only code and/or "as-is" code, no
technical information on how the application works, and some projects use an
excessive number of libraries, etc.

While I use DOS, KernelEx for Win98SE has allowed me to run many recent
applications from Win NT/2K/XP/Vista etc.  Unfortunately, they are still
working out some bugs.  And, some software is becoming incompatible as fast
as they make it compatible (e.g., Mozilla Firefox...)  It seems there are
just two main developers.  A third guy supposedly got the project to
compile.  But, I haven't seen any contributions from him yet.  I can't seem
to locate the ancient, out of production MS compiler they're using, or I'd
attempt to locate two irritating issues.


Rod Pemberton