To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Message-Id: Organization: Inst. of Evolutionary Physiology & Biochemistry, St.Petersburg From: pavel AT insect DOT ief DOT spb DOT su (Pavel Ozerski) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 97 11:57:03 +0300 Reply-To: pavel AT insect DOT ief DOT spb DOT su Subject: about current attempts to make OpenDOS WIN'95 compatible Precedence: bulk I think, the attempt to attain simple "WIN95 compatibility" for OpenDOS is a wrong way because of: 1) Nobody can buy WINDOWS 4 without M$-DOS 7; 2) The best features of OpenDOS (TASKMGR, UNDELETE) are useless in WINDOWS environment, therefore using OpenDOS SIMPLELY instead MS is useless (an answer: will do future OpenDOS UNDELETE preserve full LONG names of deleted files too?); Finally, 3) This way cannot solve the main problem of the present-day tendency of OSs development: permanent increase of the hardware requirement. I'm sure, that the better way may be the development of independent WINDOWS-compatible graphical environment (e.g. on basis of WINE, but 32-bit) or even though "OpenWin32S". Note: as I know, the russian company PhysTechSoft announced to develop to 2000 year an OS, PTS-WIN 2000, compatible with WIN'95 and WARP simultaneously. That is a cause for Caldera to think and to hasten (or try to collaborate? Its WWW site must be http://www.pts.mipt.ru but I cann't connect for some reason currently). -- Pavel V. Ozerski | Inst. of Evolutionary Physiology & Biochemistry, office +7 (812)552-6870(291)| Russian Academy of Sciences, FAX +7 (812)552-3012 | Thorez pr. 44, St.Petersburg, 194223, Russia home +7 (812)528-5576 | E-mail: pavel AT insect DOT ief DOT spb DOT su