From: rivie AT intergate DOT daautah DOT com (Roger Ivie (a known boogerhead))
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Mirror for opendos????
Date: 27 Jan 1997 16:36:54 GMT
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In article <5ci9v7$kd8 AT news DOT service DOT uci DOT edu>, John Beppu wrote:
>In article <5ci2qd$sh4 AT mailnews DOT kub DOT nl>,
>Student s757810 <s757810 AT kub DOT nl> wrote:
>
>>Does somebody know of a mirror for Opendos? I tried at least a thousand methods
>>to get it from Caldera's homepage (http://www.caldera.com/dos/html/dload.htm)
>>but it failed all the time. I also looked on their ftp site but couldn't find
>>it there either. Is there perhaps some other wwwpage/ftp-site I could download
>>it from?      and I wanna have it too )-:
>
>
>  I hope the Caldera folks don't get mad, but OpenDOS is supposed to
>  be free of charge, right?

Nevertheless, take a close look at the licensing agreement:

) Copying or reproduction of the software to any other server or
) location for further reproduction or redistribution is expressly
) prohibited.

Don't know about you, but the last thing _I_ want to do is piss off Caldera
(at least not before they've released the CP/M and MP/M sources...).

>  I was looking forward to trying the multitasker out, and it works,
>  but its very far from perfect.  Dare I say, Win 3.11 does a better
>  job as far as being a task-switcher/multitasker for DOS.  This can
>  be fixed, of course, but OpenDOS is still a little raw.

I'm much more interested in the raw multitasking API. Given the heritage
of OpenDOS, it should have a good decade or so of development behind it
(why yes, I do have my MP/M manuals handy, thank you very much). Task
switching is the least of the things I'd like to do with OpenDOS multitasking
(given that task switchers exist for CP/M, task switching doesn't even
require multitasking to begin with...).

>  It's funny that I never used Windows to task-switch DOS sessions
>  for me before, but I wanted to compare OpenDOS to something I 
>  already had.

That's about all I use Windows for. I usually have about two DOS windows
going, a good have a dozen Telnet sessions, and perhaps an XTerm or
two...

Roger Ivie
ivie AT cc DOT usu DOT edu