Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 11:09:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Mike A. Harris" Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" To: jamesl AT albany DOT net cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0 In-Reply-To: <199703271819.NAA05529@keeper.albany.net> Message-ID: Organization: Total disorganization. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, James Lefavour wrote: > > > Sure! S-T-A-B-L-E! Mess-dos on my machine had 15..20 days uptime - > > > and OD crashes nearly everyday! Usually QEMM excp 13.. > > > > If you want STABLE, I mean uptime's of a year or more without > > crashes, use Linux. To be completely honest, I've never seen a > > QEMM Exception 13 error under Linux. :o) > > > Yes, Linux is stable, I am currently running RedHat's latest release > with the kernel custom configured, etc... But there is one problem. > > Much of the commercial/shareware/freeware software is developed > exclusively for Windows/dos. I have several games/programs etc. that > are for Win95 or win 3.1 alone. Very true. But more and more for Linux every day too. > While Linux may include an "emulator" for dos and win3.1, it is not > nearly complete - and the purpose of OpenDOS is to give the DOS > community an alternative to M$'s versions. Hopefully, an alternative > that is both stable and compatible, while superior :-) Again very true. DOSemu is quite stable now though. I've heard that Win 3.1 runs ok under it now. > This is something I have been waiting for for some time. Nothing > wrong with that is there? ;-) No, I've been waiting for a long time for the same thing. I hope that a free STABLE clone of '95 will come out within the next year because I'm going to be FORCED into needing it and I REFUSE to install M$95 period. I pray that Caldera is silently working on OpenWindows95 (complete with sources of course) since they've won rights to the details of M$ OS's for 10 years. Hopefully that is enough time for Caldera to clone 95, NT, and then push BEYOND M$ and put out THE NEXT OS. (Pun not intended on NeXT). :o) Long live OpenDOS! Mike A. Harris | http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris Computer Consultant | Coming soon: dynamic-IP-freedom... My dynamic address: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca Want to know how to let people connect to your computer over the internet?