Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 15:21:59 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703122321.PAA23239@infomatch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net From: sylphid Subject: [opendos] hi Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk well, i've been running opendos for a grand total of 2 days now, and i have a couple first thoughts: first of all, very nice job done with some of the utils. i noticed that nwcache runs a lot faster than smartdrv. i run a bbs on a 386sx/16, and hard drive caching is the only thing that doesn't make it go down for 5 minutes while packing mail. i also noticed how much conventional ram i suddenly had .. with microsquash dos i had about 560k with all my drivers loaded .. suddenly i'm surrounded by 620k. opendos's emm386 is indeed neato. i'm kind of afraid to try the multitasking, but i suppose it's not really worthwhile to even attempt on a 386sx/16. one thing that's definately missing is a "/s" commandline option in the DIR command. it's kind of a pain not to be able to recursively search directories when i've lost a vital file. one thing that's not so important, but still kind of annoying, is that a multi-config on bootup would be nice. i had my ms-dos all configured with several options (load everything, minimal boot, etc) and now i have to manually go through and pick stuff to load if i want to run a memory-intensive game. at any rate, i can't wait until the source code comes out .. does anyone have any kind of concrete (or non-concrete) date set?