Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:11:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Travis Siegel To: Dean Dancey cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Third time out??? In-Reply-To: <3535CC4C.3AD9@sympatico.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Dean Dancey wrote: > I am on my third test with DR-DOS, and it may be the last. At every I've heard a lot of people say they don't like opendos, because of various things, but it usually comes down to the fact that a few (very few) commands have different names, and they can't get used to that) Overall, I personally think that except for emm386, open dos is much more stable than any other dos I've used. > turn I am hitting roadblocks in memory, compatibility and performance. Memory I can understand, since the emm386 of open dos isn't as robust as the ms equivalent, but performance? I find my programs run just as happily on open dos as they do on ms, and while I've not seen any run slower, I have seen troubles with sound cards on some games, and one pascal compiler I have (an old one called fsp pascal) that apparently uses extended memory differntly than open dos expects, I've had 0 problems with open dos. Perhaps if you elaborate on your difficulties, we could help to solv them. > based programs. I am getting major troubles with simple older ones. > Netscape seems just as or more buggy than with MessyDOS. I need to use > MSCDEX.EXE on most programs. And the DRDOS memory manager still needs > much work. Any release date on the next version, or is this as good as > it will get??? -Dean Dancey My roommate is using netscape quite successfully under open dos, and he's had 0 troubles with that aspect of things. Again, if you elaborate a little, perhaps I could get him to help you out some. Why do you need to use mscdex? Is nwcdex not working for you? I personally find nwcdex to run faster, take less memory, and support my 7-disc changer a whole lot better than does mscdex. It also handles my cd-r recordable drive just fine as well, so I can't guess what kind of troubles you might be having with it. Again, elaboration is the key word here. We can't help if we don't know what the problems are. :) As for another version, I don't know anything about it, other than something I read on either this list or another dos related one that support was being pulled for the product, and no more releases were going to be made that were free, but since I have no verification of that statement, I'd take it with a grain of salt, until we see something official on the web page.