On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 at 21:35, Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> IBM. They owned the copyright jointly from version 3.1 onward (note that > they specifically said they had to get the OK from IBM to release the 4.0 > sources). IBM was the first ever licensee of MS-DOS. It was built for IBM, and as such, it has a degree of influence and control over every single version. I am not aware of any particular way that this changed in 3.1. What do you have in mind? > emm386 was originally developed by Compaq, and was in MS-DOS 4. Compaq wrote CEMM, not EMM386, but I think that the Compaq one was developed into the MS one, yes. OTOH since Compaq no longer exists MS did not need to seek its permission in 2024, I think... no? > That's baroque when http://www.seasip.info/Gem/Software/resdir.zip exists > (the postprocessor I was referring to). I disagree. 1. It's much preferable to just fix it. It merely needs a couple of config files editing. 2. One DOS command is easier than downloading a separate tool and patching a program. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
