Hi, I have to follow-up myself on LZ-DOS: > google translate of http://dos.nm.ru/ is only a kernel, freeware > provided as-is by JSC. Can be used with the userspace tools and > drivers of other DOS variants and generally sounds interesting.
... > You mean LZ DOS is an improved rip of the MS DOS 7 kernel? Or > is it just another DOS kernel which provides DOS 7.x compat? > I would like to hear from other users what their experiences > with LZ DOS are... Unfortunately it is not improved at all: Somebody just took a few components of MS DOS 7 and PC DOS 7 and REBRANDED and then recompressed them. Not worth mentioning IMHO because everybody who likes to ignore licenses can just as well download a grey copy of the real MS DOS 7 or PC DOS 7 somewhere anyway. Forum http://reboot.pro/topic/14520-lz-dos/ says, excerpted: The file dates on LZ-DOS is 11/9/2003, which is identical to the build date on pc-dos 7.10.0129 ... we see a very close match between the two, to the point where the bulk of the file is a light string hack (gsar -s"PC DOS" -r"LZ-DOS" -o command.com), does most of the work. you will indeed discover that the bulk of the differences between 1.29 command.com and lz-dos command.com lies entirely in PC DOS -> LZ-DOS, and a few copyright strings. There is a single change of byte elsewhere in the file (05 -> 06 or something). ... and only 4 CODE byte changes might offer any improvements ... LZ's io.sys was compressed with apack.com. See also: http://reboot.pro/topic/5497-ms-dos-71/ on how to mix various commercial DOS variants into something useful to those who are not looking at licenses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
