Re: [Freedos-devel] Pat Villani

2011-08-29 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 04:25 PM 8/29/2011, Jim Hall wrote: >FreeDOS friends: > >I must share the sad news that Pasquale "Pat" Villani, 57, passed away >on Saturday night, at his home. Many of you knew Pat. For our new >members: Pat Villani was the author of the original FreeDOS kernel. Really sorry to hear that... :-

Re: [Freedos-devel] Pat Villani

2011-08-29 Thread ck raju
On 30 August 2011 04:55, Jim Hall wrote: > FreeDOS friends: > > I must share the sad news that Pasquale "Pat" Villani, 57, passed away > on Saturday night, at his home. Many of you knew Pat. For our new > members: Pat Villani was the author of the original FreeDOS kernel. A great loss. May his id

[Freedos-devel] Pat Villani

2011-08-29 Thread Jim Hall
FreeDOS friends: I must share the sad news that Pasquale "Pat" Villani, 57, passed away on Saturday night, at his home. Many of you knew Pat. For our new members: Pat Villani was the author of the original FreeDOS kernel. Pat and I were good friends. Although we never met in person, we chatted on

[Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-08-29 Thread Georg Potthast
Roberto is right, the lack of drivers is a major problem for DOS now. Even most printers cannot be used with DOS anymore since you cannot just send plain ASCII text to them. Either the transmission is compressed or it is a Winprinter which will work with a Windows driver only. Maybe someone can