Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 13:11:29 RST
From: ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru (-= ArkanoiD =-)
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Subject: Re: ClosedDOS???
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nuqneH,

In message <97Sep11.102622gmt+0100 DOT 11653 AT internet01 DOT amc DOT de> Christopher Croughton writes:
> -= ArkanoiD =- wrote:
> > 
> > [dd]
> 
> Do I sense anothe vi-liker?  Although I use VIM on all three platforms
> (OSF/1, Linux and DOS)...
> 

Yep,i use VIM on those platforms too (now i am writing this message on a DOS
machine) + FreeBSD and AT&T Sys V,but on 2 other machines i prefer ZEDIT
(CP/M-86/80) and LSE (VAX/VMS) ;) So i can't say vi is my only editor..

> > > DJGPP does not have an external DOS extender, necessarily, it is
> > > normally bound into the utilities.  All they need is a DPMI server
> > > (one that works!).
> > 
> > ;)) "One that works" ;) great!
> 
> Well, OpenDOS's one had serious problems at first, I'm not sure if they've
> been fixed.  And early QEMM's DPMI server wasn't that good either (but
> QEMM 8 is fine, even under DesqView with 8 or 9 DOS sessions doing
> pre-emptive multitasking).  If the OS software is broken, you can't
> expect applications to work.
> 

Hmm i tried upgrading QEMM to 8.x but it caused huge memory overhead
(my system is dual monitor so i have less high memory than average user
does) - so i switched back to my old 6.0.

btw what ip stack for dos do you use?

> Note that the DPMI server supplied with the DJGPP stuff will only be
> installed if no DPMI server is detected - it doesn't know about broken
> ones...

I use it now - is it better than old qdpmi.sys?

...and about all that OD-related talk..

Caldera said "multitasking",so i was waiting for Concurrent DOS kernel..
I was really afraid they could offer Novell DOS pseudo-multitasking system
instead - and they did ! :((

I am now thinking on switching back to PC DOS 7.. if the hope is completely
lost.

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