From: "florianx" <dos DOT fire AT aon DOT at>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Power consumption #1, DOS issues (was Power measurement)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:48:45 +0200
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Hi!

>Firstly, do you have some idea of how likely it is, that Lineo
>(Caldera) will release DR-DOS as open-source, and in what
>time-frame?

Mh...not so fast, they cannot, because of their DOS-competitors and because
of the OEMs....

>
>Have the various problems with EMM386.EXE been resolved, in
>the meantime? Eg. are there still DPMI problems with DJGPP,
>or VCPI problems with Causeway and others?

Ask Matthias ;))

>
>How "close" is the code to supporting LBA, FAT32 and LFN stuff
>properly?

BTW: I read, that Lineo wrote a tool to support Win9x on top of Dr-DOS 7.03,
it is somewhere
avaiable or hasn't it been released?

>
>Are there any M$ patent problems with using FAT32 and LFN
>together? If so, would the US government department which is
>pursuing M$ for anti-trust, help to revoke such a patent? Why
>does the patent office grant patents for stuff that is clearly not
>innovative, anyway???

In an open source program no problem. BTW: Datalight ROM-DOS also supports
FAT32 and LFN, so that
shouldn't be that problem.

>
>Is Free-DOS any good? How advanced is it on these issues?


FreeDOS will (I think) never have such a good memory manager, Taskmanager
and DPMS server. DPMI, yes....there  are many avaiable :)

Bye, Florian