From: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 01:50:33 -0500 (EST)
To: Jonathan Visick <visick AT ewald DOT mbi DOT ucla DOT edu>
Cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist 2.0
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4dos can't run nethack without crashing and burning on my machine.
There was a message on this list a couple days ago I forwarded to
someone
else who tried 4dos and had it crash and burn on him too.
For my money, anyone running 4dos oughtn't attempt
it without safety equipment and a parachute.
On Thu,
13 Mar 1997, Jonathan Visick wrote:

> a couple comments on the posted Wishlist:
> 
> >4] File Descriptions
> >14] Add 4DOS's cool stuff
> >15] Command history (doskey)
> 
>         4dos has done all this so well and for so long and there are so
> many great utilities, aliases and batch files for it that I'd vote to *not*
> add all this and just keep using 4dos as the command processor.
> 
>         Or, in the best of all possible worlds (this is a WISH list,
> right?) get Caldera and JPSoft to hammer out an agreement so that an
> opendos-enhanced version of 4dos IS command.com!
> 
> >12] Make W95 run from OpenDOS
> 
>         Isn't this a little like getting people to work together to build a
> better performing, finely-tuned, economical engine and then saying you also
> want to be able to put it in a Chevy Suburban?  Once you have an improved
> version of OpenDOS with pre-emptive multitasking, built-in TCP/IP and
> available Internet tools and a graphical menu, what would running Windoze95
> do for you besides give you access to a lot of bloated, badly-written
> programs?
> 
> Jon Visick
> visick AT ewald DOT mbi DOT ucla DOT edu
> 
> 
> 


jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>