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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:42:43 -0700
From: Neal <lbneal AT pysmatic DOT net>
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Quarterdeck was swallowed by Symantec and nothing remains :=)

Neal
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florianx wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> >> In an open source program no problem. BTW: Datalight ROM-DOS also supports
> >> FAT32 and LFN, so that
> >> shouldn't be that problem.
> >>
> >       [da Silva, Joe]
> >
> >       Are you sure about that open-source bit? For instance,
> >       InfoZIP and Ghostscript have both deleted support for
> >       LZW decompression, because of the Unisys patent ...
> 
> Mh...the source can be published...if a binary...I don't know....
> 
> >
> >       As for Datalight ROM-DOS, their web site does not
> >       provide a lot of information. However, it seems fairly
> >       clear that this is only available for OEMs.
> 
> I don't think, that the information is so bad. Yes, it is mostly for OEMs, but also for
> desktop it is useful.
> 
> >
> >       Furthermore, there is no information about the origins
> >       of ROM-DOS ... but all the clues indicate that this is
> >       actually "our old friend" ;-) M$-DOS !!! From this fact
> >       (?), we can deduce the following :
> 
> They said on their web page, that they developed all of the stuff. I also don't think, that they would
> have such nice features, if they would have bought M$-DOS.
> 
> >       2. This does not provide as much free conventional
> >           memory as DR-DOS 7.0X, partly because the
> >           kernel is very large, partly because it doesn't have
> >           the DPMS "goodies".
> 
> DPMS is a very nice feature...but a OS will never have all features it could have :)
> 
> >> >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 :)
> >>
> >       [da Silva, Joe]
> >
> >       We have previously established that the Novell and
> >       OpenDOS 7.01 DPMS servers can be supplied free
> >       with DPMS clients, so that may solve one problem.
> 
> The only problem is, that it only supports 64MB (I read, so maybe i am wrong).
> 
> >
> >       As for Taskmanager, all this ever did for me was
> >       lock-up the PC, so I wouldn't miss this too much. :-/
> >       Well ... as a task switcher it seems stable - it's just
> >       the multi-tasking that has never worked for me ...
> 
> I think, DOS needs a taskmanager, why? Most people like it and who of the windows user
> would ever use DOS without Taskmanager? Ok...I know... ;)
> 
> >
> >       WRT a memory manager - I wonder, what's the status
> >       of QEMM ? If this is a discontinued product, perhaps
> >       the copyright owners (Quarterdeck?) could be persuaded
> >       to release it as "freeware" or even "open-source". Would
> >       this benefit FreeDOS for memory management?
> 
> Some people have said, that the source code is lost etc. I also think, that we should contact the company, but i haven't
> found any contact address where I got answerd.
> 
> bye, flox