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From: "Alaric B. Williams" <alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
To: brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 21:02:28 +0000
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Subject: Re: OpenDOS/32
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> I'd love to see a 32-bit clean DOS, fully compatible
> to the large DOS app base, with lots of 32-bit-clean
> DOS software.  However, I'd much rather prefer
> a 32-bit-clean fully GUI-based DOS-compatible
> and Win32-compatible environment.  Until somebody
> automates Linux far more, I don't think we're going
> to see it.  Meanwhile, Windows 95 comes sufficiently
> close for me to get the things I need to get done done.
> NT console apps are 32-bit-DOS enough for me.

Ah, well; many people want something more lightweight than NT (32 bit
DOS would be great for games programmers and OS experimentors like me;
a 32 bit DOS would be just a driver layer to my proto-OS), and also
*cheaper* than NT, as well as *freer* than NT!

(Or Win95, of course)

> It seems to me that men usually think more about carburetors, and women
> think more about doors.  I think the world needs really good carburetors...and
> really good doors.

? I think about food myself.


ABW
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Alaric B. Williams (alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk)

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