This sounds like something that would best be coordinated with the
FreeDOS people. I'm sure they'd like to have multitasking working with
the regular version as well, if it isn't considered outside the project
scope. The implementation would probably be quite different from ELKS
since it has to support large model DOS binaries. Could get hairy esp.
with apps which don't follow the rules or free up memory.
BTW, DOSbell sounds quite cool. As to ELKS compatibility would be
source-level if there was a similar libc for DOSbell.
- Chad
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote:
> No, it is not GPL, it is not free software. You must (I beleive) pay a
> licensing fee to Caldera to get the source. A better thing would be to
> take the multitasking stuff from ELKS.
>
> On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Perry Harrington wrote:
>
> > You can get the source to Novell Dos 7 from Caldera, off their website, it's
> > been GPLd I believe. Anyhow DRDOS 6.0 and Novell Dos 7.0 had 286 task switchers
> > with them as a 'program'.
> >
> > > Hmm.. Is there any code out there that is 8-bit and quite reliable at task
> > > switching. Its a pity I can't get Dosshell's source code (remember, from
> > > MS-DOS 5.0?). I'm going to make a simple task switcher and then add some
> > > timing to it to come up with a pseudo-stable multitasking environment.
> > >
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