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Hi,

On Mar 18, 12:48=A0pm, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnb DOT  DOT  DOT  AT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
wrote:
> DJ Delorie writes:
>
> =A0> > Actually I'm looking into making a gui for it that is xwindows-ish=
.
> =A0> > I don't know not sure. Everyone is saying it can't be done or that
> =A0> > there is no point.
> =A0>
> =A0> Of course it can be done! =A0DesqView/X was that, many years ago. =
=A0DJGPP
> =A0> even supports it (using their libraries).
>
> Indeed, DJGPP + DesqView/X was a wonderful environment. =A0Quarterdeck's
> clear intention to retire DesqView was what drove me to Linux in the
> first place.

Well, at least we have FreeDOS these days (as well as DJGPP,
OpenWatcom, etc). The only real lack is "developers, developers,
developers" (to quote a certain dude). Short of actually using a
minimal Linux distro w/ DOSEMU (DeLi?), there's no real "free" way to
multitask (TriDOS is too buggy, DPMI host disabled due to that). If
someone wants to play with it, they can try with JWasm (which is
mostly MASM v6 compatible):

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=3DMain.Tri=
pleDOS
http://www.japheth.de/JWasm.html

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