To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0 
Message-ID: <19970322.091819.4303.1.chambersb@juno.com>
References: <199703220420 DOT XAA23688 AT keeper DOT albany DOT net>
From: chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D Chambers)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 12:13:30 EST


On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 23:17:09 -0500 "James Lefavour"
<jamesl AT mail DOT albany DOT net> writes:
>> I _love_ that idea :)
>> Kind of like an extended command parser?
>> 
>> ...Chambers
>
>Not sure exactly what you mean... but what I'm saying is that the 
>next level would not repeat the mistakes of M$.  Long file names and 
>full 32bitPM would be available from the command line, and the 
>"display mode" (as in W95) would be just a layer over that, adding in 
>support for standard controls, windows, etc.  When you don't 
>want/need the extra overhead, you don't load it, but you still have 
>more than full DOS functionality :-))
>
>Jim

What I meant was, it's basically a nifty looking command prompt :)
Of course, there would be an API for windowing etc, but the graphical API
would be the only difference between it and vanilla OD.

...Chambers