From: Christopher Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
Message-Id: <97Sep11.134613gmt+0100.11651@internet01.amc.de>
Subject: Re: ClosedDOS???
To: ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 12:51:25 +0100
Cc: crough45 AT amc DOT de, opendos AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <338@mpak.convey.ru> from "-= ArkanoiD =-" at Sep 11, 97 02:11:29 pm
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-= ArkanoiD =- wrote:

> 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..

It's not quite my only, but getting close.  If 'Aurora' wasn't for PC only
I might use that more, but I like a standard interface.

> 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.

I can see that happening.

> btw what ip stack for dos do you use?

I don't.  My net connection is primarily through work, on the DEC
Alphastation under (spit!) OSF/1, although I have a CompuServe account
as backup.  On my machine in England (which is at my house there, relaying
stuff to me at work here in Germany) I run KA9Q, which is a complete
internet node package using PPP or SLIP and containing its own TCP/IP
stack and a multitasking OS on top of DOS.  Eventually that machine will
be converted to Linux and use the Linux TCP/IP stack.

> > 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?

CSDPMI is pretty good, but not as good as the new QDPMI (since I use
DesqView extensively under DOS, the Quarterdeck programs are better
optimised).

> 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 ! :((

Which is why I stick with DesqView.  True preemptive multitasking...

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

What's the difference between that and MSDOD 6.22?

Chris C