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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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Once upon a time (on 10 Feb 97 at 5:10) mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on. said:

> > Yes, but what we're aiming for is a consistent OS, not a pile of patches
> > fixing/improving one and the same thing. Sooner or later we'd get lost in
> > that pile of litter!
> 
> Yeah, but I'm sure that there will be *some* litter regardless of
> what we'd like.
True. But, fortunately, those working on the project will not hae to be 
worried with the rubbish.

> > I had such a driver in mind for some time now, but couldn't find any info
> > on hardware interface of the mouse device. Even Linux sources couldn't
> > help much - they were to vague. Until recently I found the document on 
> 
> Well if you ever implement such a mouse driver, be sure to
> remember me!
I still don't know how to *detect* the mouse hardware.

> > > too! This will help to make DOSemu more stable, in fact I think
> > > it will triple DOSemu developement.
> > I think OpenDOS will adapt DOSEmu. AFAIR, that was the Caldera plan to
> > ship Linux+OpenDOS bundle, wasn't it?
> 
> I believe so.  I wonder how much the Linux + OpenDOS + DOSemu
> package will cost.
AFAIK it'll be free, or at most at the media price. The only commercial 
piece, in my understanding, will be the Caldera Desktop for Linux, am I 
right?


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