Mike, I like your suggestions. One thing that always bothered me about dos versions that have come out since ms dropped the ball is their complete lack of inovation. I realize there's only so much that can be done if you're intending to keep 100 percent compatibility, but still, it's not hard to imagine such details as enumerated here. One thing I wonder is why nobody builds a dos multitasker that simply spawns a new virtual 386 machine for each new dos task. That would keep 100 percent compatibility, and still allow complete and free multitasking. The virtual 386 machines would take care of virtualizing keyboards and video output automatically, since it's all built into the 386 hardware. I'm fairly certain, none of that ability has been removed with the newer cores and such. I see no reason why this sort of thing couldn't work. I'm not positive, but I think this is the approach vmix386 took, and why it worked so well (at least with my testing) it would be fantastic to have such an os.
Another thing I wonder, is why it is that nobody has built anything that allows executing of multiple oses on a single computer, using one cpu core for each os, thereby allowing each os to run natively on it's own cpu, thus eliminating the need to vertualize anything (except perhaps output and input), but then each and every os would have it's own cpu, and all of them would run at full native speeds. Then you could have as many oses running as you have cpu cores to handle them. (still waiting) I guess someone will do it eventually, but until they do, I'll stick with my osx machine, and my several dos boxes scattered everywhere. :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerry® mobile platform with sessions, labs & more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerry® DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
