Re: [fd-dev] DosEmu/Linux (was:Microkernel architecture)

2002-12-08 Thread Aitor Santamaria Merino
Aitor Santamaria Merino wrote: I am not interested in this project for the moment, sorry. (sorry, I rephrase in case I was not correctly understood: In case my previous sentences could have given the impression that I am interested at this moment, I am not, sorry!) Aitor -- list

Re: [fd-dev] [OT] Microkernel architecture

2002-12-06 Thread Aitor Santamaria Merino
Hi, Something interesting! Now I remember where I took my information from: Undocumented DOS, the times of NT4 came later, I guess ;-)) Aitor On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 10:34, Aitor Santamaria Merino wrote: And I'll admit that I don't know much of the internal structure of NT, but I'm pretty

[fd-dev] [OT] Microkernel architecture

2002-12-04 Thread Aitor Santamaria Merino
Minix is based on a microkernel architecture. Linux uses a monolithic kernel instead - and this inherent difference of architecture caused that by now well known fall-out between Tannenbaum and Torwalds, remember? No wonder thus that when in March 1994 version 1.0 was presented at the University

Re: AW: [fd-dev] [OT] Microkernel architecture

2002-12-04 Thread Aitor Santamaria Merino
Hi, Jensen, Gerard wrote: Has anyone tried GNU-Mach and GNU-Hurd? At a version level of 0.2? A pitty ;-) NT is microkernel too, in my understanding it's a little advantage over Linux at this moment (?). Woah, hang on: NT uses a modified microkernel. Process Manager and Virtual Memory

Re: [fd-dev] [OT] Microkernel architecture

2002-12-04 Thread Aitor Santamaria Merino
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: X-Comment-To: Aitor Santamaria Merino Hi! 4-äÅË-2002 13:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamaria Merino) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ASM NT is microkernel too, in my understanding it's a little advantage over ASM Linux at this moment (?). This (NT is microkernel

Re: [fd-dev] [OT] Linux vs. BSD (was:Dosemu)

2002-12-04 Thread Aitor Santamaria Merino
Simon Waite wrote: On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:55:26PM +0100, Jensen, Gerard said this: Linux is a rewrite of BSD. No, Linux is rewrite of Minix. [snip] No, Linux is a bit more than just a rewrite of Minix... ;-)) Or would you call OS/2 a rewrite of Windows 3.0? No, I'd call NT a

Re: [fd-dev] [OT] Linux vs. BSD (was:Dosemu)

2002-12-04 Thread Aitor Santamaria Merino
Eric Auer wrote: OS/2 became a full-blown OS with a GUI around 1994, and it feels like a logical extension of DOS, adding GUI and multitasking. In 1994/1995, it was unclear whether OS/2 (better design) or Windows 95 (better marketing) would win the market. Things went horribly wrong, so almost

Re: [fd-dev] Enquiry: Update packs

2002-12-03 Thread Aitor Santamaria Merino
Eric Auer wrote: Hi Aitor, you did not get the point... when you zip 100 files that are the same, the zip will be 100 times some size. However, when you use an UNCOMPRESSED zip, then the file will basically contain 100 times the same data structure. TAR is in principle the same as an

Re: [fd-dev] DISPLAY CON?=

2002-12-03 Thread Aitor Santamaria Merino
tom ehlert wrote: One could at least think of having multiple console drivers residing concurrently in a system, say CO80: and BW80: connected to different video systems and screens, and CON dynamically assigned one can *always* think of something, that would break something else. but with

Re: [fd-dev] DISPLAY CON?=

2002-12-03 Thread Aitor Santamaria Merino
Matthias Paul wrote: DEVICE=DISPLAY.SYS co80:=(ega,437,(6,3)) DEVICE=DISPLAY.SYS bw80:=(mono,(437,161),0) Interesting... understood. Well, this means that if a user makes a mistake like: DISPLAY CONN=(EGA,437,(6,3)) then it won't prevent DISPLAY from loading, but it won't work ;-) The : I

[fd-dev] Enquiry: Update packs

2002-12-02 Thread Aitor Santamaria Merino
Hi, For a time now, I decided to branch the keyboard layout production from the xkeyb driver coding, so that Henrique Peron, which has been helping me with the layouts for some time, can update the layouts at his own rythm, without the need to wait for a new version of the driver. Everything

Re: [fd-dev] FreeDos with FAT32 Success!!!!!

2002-11-29 Thread Aitor Santamaria Merino
Wouldn't this be/use cygwin, mingw (or was it mingv) and friends? Florian Xaver wrote: Hi! (I am not sure if FreeDOS supports files of 2 GB yet, The DJGPP team are working on a WinXP compatible DJGPP lib/compiler,which (if i remember right) will also support files bigger than 2GB under

Re: [fd-dev] FreeDOS installer ideas

2002-11-25 Thread Aitor Santamaria Merino
But=- FD.EXE could be made by RAR.EXE, and self extract into any 16 bit dos directory, or maybe even a floppy. You seen the drdos 7.03 install?It is, by far, the fastest of all of the above. I don't think plain unpacking will upgrade the boot sector, as required by the install disk. Since

Re: RE: [fd-dev] Codepage IDs

2002-11-22 Thread Aitor Santamaria Merino
Hi, = Actually, Michal and I are working on creating new .CPI files from scratch (to be used under *any* system supporting .CPI files, including DR-DOS, PTS-DOS, MS-DOS OEM issues, Arabic/Hebrew issues of MS-DOS, OS/2 and Windows NT/2000/XP), so you can include and exclude codepages as you