From: sb1 AT sisna DOT com
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 16:30:35
Subject: thoughts and questions.
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Hi all.

I am so excited about the opendos plans and work that has already been
done.

Marc Perkel wrote some ideas about the future of DOS back in 1991.
He basically said make an int that would tell the system when called to
run the new dos features.  Then create API that would let us have an
open architecture with emulators for other os etc.

Also if the int was not called to inable the new extentions it would be
just like good old dos.

Hopefully we can get more of the power of unix with the ease of use like
dos.
Will we ever get to run windows programs from the DOS prompt?
Will we ever be able to use the win .dll files etc?
What about winsock for the net?

How about other GUI shells for dos like windows ... will they run
windwos progs?

Any ideas or info on this?

Thanks
Sam