From: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 00:00:12 -0500 (EST)
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To: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32?
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On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:

> Once upon a time (on  2 Feb 97 at 17:19) Ian 'DrDebug' Day said:
> 
> > look too hard, now, does it? Come on, someone could write a TSR >that
> > implements it on top of FAT, either as VFAT or using look-up files >without
> > much difficulty.
> > 
> > TSR?  Are you on drugs?  It would be far better if we were to compile
> > the components that you want into IBMDOS.SYS (or whatever).  This would
> > provide the fastest system possible.
> Nope. IBMDOS.COM should be kept as small as possible, and how do you imagine 
> adding up new file systems? Recompile IBMDOS.COM every time!?

Only takes me an hour to recompile a Linux kernel.  Recompiling a
DOS kernel surely would only take 10-15 minutes.

> > And perhaps also go along the lines of Linux and have loadable modules
> > (a bit like VLMs).
> Now, that's the way to go! But, once again, we have to develop a standard for 
> these drivers.

Yep.  Sounds good to me.  With conditional compilation, one could
compile support for a driver either directly into the kernel, or
as a loadable module, or a dumb .SYS or .DRV file in config.sys.


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