Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/01/13/03:49:07
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Philip A Lettkeman wrote:
>
> Ever since version 7.00 (I think) of OpenDOS (currently at 7.02) it has
> had a BootLoader that will recognize Win95. It will set it's boot menu
> up to boot normally to win95 or to OpenDOS. You can also have it
> recognize OS/2, and Unix flavors from what I understand, but I've never
> bothered to try.
> The installation under Win95 is very straight forward. Even I did it.
> All you do is make the floppies using the included utility in the
> download. Then you boot to command prompt of Win95 and put in disk 1 and
> install. As I said it does the configuring for you for the bootloader.
> It allows alot of flexibility for memory management, you can do that
> during setup or after you boot to the OS for the first time.
>
> What I think is nice is that it is very much like the djgpp community
> trying to constantly improve the O/S. They are very open to suggestions
> from customers who use the product and maintain a mailing list for it.
> You can even download the main source code and change things for yourself
> and then upload the changes to them to see if they want to include them
> in the next release. I'll tell you that the biggest thing missing is an
> X-Windows type GUI (sort of like windows but more flexible). I think it
> would be great if some of the DJGPP programmers worked on this type of a
> project. Imagine, DOS with the flexibility of Linux, without having to
> M$ Win95 (or any M$ O/S product) on the system anywhere!!!!! Oh well, I
> digress. I stayed up too late last night and am to prone to daydreaming.
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Philip Lettkeman phil DOT man AT juno DOT com
>
> "Every man has his price. Mine just happens to be the love of my
> children."
>
> On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 20:28:46 EST Myknees <Myknees AT aol DOT com> writes:
> >In a message dated 98-01-11 13:31:36 EST, you write:
> >
> >> Has anyone here attempted to try the multitasking capabilities of
> >the
> >> DPMI of OpenDOS for this purpose? This version of DOS has brought
> >"TRUE"
> >> multitasking. It can be found at www.caldera.com.
> >>
> >
> >This question isn't worth posting, but...
> >If you are running Win95 & DOS7, and you want to retain Win95 on your
> >machine,
> >then wouldn't installing OpenDOS be as much trouble as, say,
> >installing Linux?
> >
> >--Ed (Myknees)
> >
>
Yes, it would be great if anyone with some experience will work trying to
improve this OS... It's true that it has some bugs, but that are things
that will surelly been updated in the final version (I was testing the
beta 2 release).
And it's really great to have a lot of programs running at the same time,
it's very useful for programmers... if you're using rhide (or even worse,
dos edit) now you don't need to shell to DOS or exit to read some help or
txts. Caldera is working in a graphical Web browser for DOS!!! So you can
read the help in .html format in a session (you can have up to 25 sessions
at a time)
Well, it's true that it will be very hard to convert that all folks that
now are using windows, but it's nice to dream, even if it's daydream!
Theuzifan Sumachingun
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