To: ldeicas AT reporters DOT net
Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: 1 question about the future of OpenDos
Message-ID: <19970411.160431.4959.0.chambersb@juno.com>
References: <199704111202 DOT IAA01284 AT delorie DOT com>
From: chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D Chambers)
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 19:58:26 EDT

(This message was CC'd to the OpenDOS list, as I thought it would be
interesting to hear what others think of my intentions).

On Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:00:01 +0200 "Laurent Dei-Cas"
<ldeicas AT reporters DOT net> writes:
>Hello,
>
>I'm a journalist in "01 Informatique" a weekly french newspaper on 
>computer
>science.
>I'm writing a paper on OpenDos and for that purpose could
>you anwser this question:
>	- what do you think of OpenDos ? (i-e will you use it ? In
>which kind of projects ? Do you know a lot of developers who will use 
>it ?)
>
>Thank you
>:-)
>Laurent Dei-Cas
>ldeicas AT reporters DOT net
>

I have ont yet installed OpenDOS, simply because I do not have a free
machine to use.  ~2-3 months after the source release, the first major
bugs ('features') should be shaken loose sufficiently that OpenDOS begins
developing in it's own direction.  About that time will probably be when
I install it.
I, for one, hope that OpenDOS (or a tangent) is made into a 32bit pm
native OS (probably running 16bit code with V86 consoles).  I know this
will not work for everyone, so I expect two major 'flavors' will develope
- 32bit for 386+, and 16bit for 286-.
I plan to develope primarily for OpenDOS, with ports to Linux (and only
porting to Win95 if someone gives me a _really_ good incentive).

...Chambers