From: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 10:26:14 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca To: Sho Nakagama cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: OpenDOS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: Total disorganization. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On 28 Jan 1997, Sho Nakagama wrote: > After that I switched to Novell DOS, and it definitely had problems > with a few games, and I thought the multi-tasking was kinda shaky, > but I never really spent a lot of time with it, since I had pretty > much competely switched to Linux by then. Cool! Another Linux advocate! We should convince caldera to flawlessly integrate DOS into Linux, and maybe we wont need DOSEMU. > As an interesting note for several editions of DOSEMU I constantly got > a system load of 1.00 whe using the MSDOS kernel/shell when idle, but > switching to the DRDOS kernel/shell dropped it back to .10 (that was > on a 386DX40) Hmm, I'll have to test that out with my setup. > I think a lot of people are like me, only ocassionally use DOS and > Windows and would much rather use an open product. More importantly > most of us are praying for direct ext2fs access. (hint) I TRIPLE that motion! I'd actually PAY MONEY for OpenDOS for personal home use if it had ext2fs built in! > Viewmax was pretty cool, I was never aware of any applications for > its API though. It sure beat the hell out of MSDOS 5's DOSHELL. Well, if you split that word up you get: DOS HELL And that says it all. :o) Mike A. Harris | http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris Computer Consultant | My webpage has moved and my address has changed. My dynamic address: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca LINUX: Lost your video after running a game or DOSemu, email me for fix.