>> Theoretically, freedos could support an open source replacement. > > And in my opinion, the only involvement FreeDOS should have is to > ensure that any such open source project would have access to whatever > they need to run, just like any other DOS application. That is, it > should be a separate project.
I agree here. A new GUI should not run exclusively on FreeDOS, because that's the Microsoft approach. Ideally, all programs should run on MS-DOS (or DR-DOS or...) as well, or failing that there should exist an adjusted version or a driver that makes the program work on the other DOS versions. I think asking the FreeDOS (kernel) developers to provide technical information about DOS, while not tying the program to FreeDOS specifics, would be most useful to achieve this. Speaking of a Windows replacement, it could be handy to use some of the Windows (3.x) support already embedded into MS-DOS (this is all undocumented by Microsoft, but became "documented undocumented" by UDOS, RBIL and other sources). Regards, Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
