On 15 July 2016 at 19:38, geneb <[email protected]> wrote: > Somewhere around here I've got an inventory of what was lost and it's a > horror show. :(
While it springs to mind -- the other things that were lost that I wish had got open-sourced were Quarterdeck's QEMM, DesqView and DesqView/X. Symantec lost the sources. DR-DOS with DesqView/X would have been a very interesting FOSS OS. It so nearly happened but it came just too late. A multitasking DOS with built-in TCP/IP and X.11 would have been very handy. Later, DR-DOS even got VFAT-compatible Long Filename support. That would have really helped DVX -- one of the problems with it that I read about was the need to mangle X.11 font filenames in an incompatible way, so that they'd fit into 8.3 characters. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)
