>> This is not about "something with graphics and mouse". >> >> It's like FreeDOS vs. MSDOS: it's only DOS if it executes Norton Commander. >> >> And it's only Windows if it executes MS Word and a bazillion windows games.
> I think you misinterpret me. no. > (I suspect it's ashamed of the code, if it still has it at all. FOSS > MS-DOS 4 only happened because an external 3rd party found the code.) not sure about this. MSDOS 6.2 could also be "found". > As such there is no prospect of the real thing in FreeDOS. > So I took the stipulated suggestion of DV/X _or_ Win3 to mean > _something broadly functionally equivalent_. > Something with: > [_] windowing, including of existing DOS apps; > [_] with a GUI; > [_] with some of its own apps; > [_] with the ability to run others; > [_] something with some form of multitasking on top of plain unmodified > FreeDOS. > As far as I know, PC GEOS ticks all of those boxes. I know of nothing > else that does. GEM comes closest and at best it can tick 3 of them. You are probably right that the best graphic shell of them all is PC GEOS. unfortunately this is completely irrelevant as the only need is for an OS that allows to play old games. So this requires Windows 3.x. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
