From: "r. v. paasen" <R DOT L DOT F DOT v DOT Paasen AT stud DOT tue DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: What's all the hype about OpenDOS
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 01:16:10 +0100
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Alaric B. Williams wrote:
> 
> On 23 Jan 1997 23:16:08 GMT, "Josh Anderson" <randerso AT win DOT bright DOT net>
> wrote:
> 
> >What's all the hype about OpenDOS
> 
> At a guess, the timeline will be something like this:
> 
> OpenDOS sources and binaries released. People ditch their pirate
> copies of DOS6.0 and use the Caldera binaries.
> 
> Hacker dudes d/l the sources and each of them designs a new
> extension-API 32 bit DOS by hacking EMM386 and the kernel.
> 
> Millions of incompatible variations emerge and swirl around like
> things that swirl around.
> 
> A few really fast or powerful 32 bit DOS+ architectures emerge, yet
> are still basically incompatible. API libraries for DJGPP and other 32
> bit compilers are written to access these.
> 
> Then, in parallel:
> 
>  - A DJGPP API is written that autodetects the installed DOS+ and uses
> the appropriate fast 32 bit I/O API, but can only use shared
> functionality.
> 
>  - A new DOS+ is written that provides all 3 or 4 prevelant APIs.
> 
> ABW


Grinn... I guess that the guys from the FreeWin95 
project are going to build their OS on OpenDos.
Just going to wait and see what happens.

RvP 
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