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From: "Kurt Wall" <kwall AT utw DOT com>
To: "DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: DJGPP: DJ's GNU POSIX Platform
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 22:21:21 -0500
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DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> opined
> To: mschulter AT  DOT value DOT net
> Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: DJGPP: DJ's GNU POSIX Platform
> Date: Thursday, September 11, 1997 9:07 PM
> 
> 
> > Having worked with some of the many-featured aspects of DJGPP for over
> > a year, while watching this platform expand further, I would like to
> > offer a modest suggestion for a new interpretation of "DJGPP":
> > 
> > DJ's GNU POSIX Platform
> 
> We'd need a POSIX file system to claim this, and DOS is not it.
> 
> Maybe it's time for DJGPP to expand into the 32-bit DOS clone area?
> We could start with Freedos (it's gpl) and rewrite the FAT drivers for
> true long and case sensitive names, real symlinks, and FAT32.
> 
> Imagine a 32-bit DOS that uses up around 3k of conventional memory,
> leaving ALL high and upper memory available, even with all your
> drivers installed...

I would also like to replace "\" with "/", true pre-emptive multitasking,
mult-processing support,
installable file systems, security, a smaller kernel with
dynamically-loadable and unloadable device drivers...  But this starts to
sound too much like UNIX, and although I like UNIX, prefer the simplicity
of DOS.