Hello,
2015-01-03 19:14 GMT+01:00 Travis Siegel <tsie...@softcon.com>:
>
> On Jan 1, 2015, at 3:46 AM, Mercury Thirteen wrote:
>
> > I too would love to see a fully modern DOS.
>
> As would I, and I believe everything mentioned in the email would be
> perfect for a 32-bit dos. I believe it can be done, and the whole give
> each program it's own virtual 86 machine is one I've wondered about for
> quite sometime. It shouldn't be difficult, and actually, I read somewhere
> that the initial version of windows did this, but of course, I can't
> confirm that, since the only version of windows 1.0 I ever had was on an xt
> where such a scheme wouldn't have worked anyhow, not to mention, I haven't
> a clue where that machine wound up at. :)
> Otherwise, each program being spawned in it's own virtual 86 machine, and
> leaving things in protected mode as much as possible makes perfect sense to
> me, and it was what I'd figured would happen to dos eventually, but it
> never did.
>
It actually did!
This is exactly what I was trying to explain, this is the way Microsoft
took, as this is what VMM32.VXD=DOS386.EXE does (a much overpowered
EMM386.EXE).
But Microsoft didn't sell this piece of software with MS-DOS, but with
MS-Windows.
Cheers,
Aitor
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