At 06:20 PM 9/16/2011, Rugxulo wrote: > > I think that Matthias mentioned long time ago > > that some updates would/could be forthcoming, but > > he has refrained from actively participating here > > probably as long as I have, probably for similar reasons... > >Dunno. He hasn't been active in a long time, at least not publicly, >and his website is quite outdated. He never finished a lot of things. >(Sounds like most of us, heh.) He's probably just busy with real life, >dunno, haven't ever really contacted him, IIRC. > >He's obviously a very savvy and smart guy, so his input would be nice! >But yeah, I guess he's got better things to do with his time. He was >heavily involved in DR-DOS back in the day, but am I correct in >understanding that he cooperated a bit with FreeDOS too? (e.g. various >technotes)
He used to work in fact for DR/Novell/Caldera's DR-DOS division in the UK, until it was shut down.... He used to be a regular in here and dropped out around the same time as I did.... The last email exchange i had with him is from July/August 2003, regarding MS-DOS OEM versions and his quest to get his hands on one of the very rare Sony 200MB floppy disc drives... >"DOS" to most people means "MS-DOS", which is indeed long dead. So is any other DOS. In a technical sense at least. DR-DOS is dead, PC-DOS is dead, PT-DOS is apparently dead as well... And FreeDOS original goal was to create a MS-DOS 6 clone, which would be freely distributable after the demise of those commercial versions... >I guess it would be more crucial if there was a portable (a la POSIX) >standard for DOS. ;-)) >Considering all the variants out there, it's not the worst idea in the >world (IMHO)! Well, that is/was MS/PC-DOS. Don't understand what else you mean/refer to as "portable". DOS is grown up on the x86 platform, being the very OS that allowed the PC world as it exists today to develop. Where do you want to port it to? You can't port it to any other CPU platform, as that would prevent each and every DOS program every written not to be executable anymore, so what's the point? Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
