From: alainm AT carnaval DOT risq DOT qc DOT ca (Alain Magloire) Subject: FreeDOS (was: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 22 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:35:50 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.206.63.11 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT mcgill DOT ca X-Trace: carnaval.risq.qc.ca 923603750 132.206.63.11 (Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:35:50 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:35:50 EDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com I don't know DOS enough to be bias. Some people may find DOS to be poor/good design that doesn't matter to regular users, if the OS provides you with a POSIX interface. Many Un*x users/programmers don't really care what goes on under the hood, they port there code to Linux/Solaris/HPUX etc.. As long it is POSIX/ANSI C compliant they know it should be more or less ok. It suprises me that people of thinking of FreeDOS as a good future engine for DJGPP. FreeDos is a 16 bits OS, with no facility for thread/SMP/multitask. At a time where the world is now turning to 64 bits and Multiple Processors, the words ``future'' and ``FreeDOS'' should not go in the same phrase. No I'm not bashing DOS, nor FreeDOS, it can be a very good platform for a single user/multitask/desktop, if they take care of some pittfalls. -- au revoir, alain ---- Aussi haut que l'on soit assis, on est toujours assis que sur son cul !!!