On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 12:36:21 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: Hi,
>Fully ACK! As PM apps tend to be much larger than their 8086 counterpart, >FreeDOS would waste a lot of memory without a benefit. In my humble opinion, the road is clear. Keep the good old DOS traditional "external command" 8086 compatible if possible, actually most of the basic command still not 386 optimized even MS-DOS 6.22 was released. People enjoy the 386 or Pentium power can search for other 3rd party software like QEMM, Norton, PCTools ...etc. We have a lot of programmers here can develop excellent software to enhance DOS, no matter djgpp or DOS extender is not a problem. But is it really necessary to change the basic command to 386? I did enjoy Norton's Safe Format and PCTools Disk Optimizer, but I still keep a copy of FORMAT and DEFRAG though I did never like them. Follow the Occam's Razor, the answer is simple and straigh forward. Rgds, Johnson. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
