Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Development Idea

2012-05-04 Thread François Revol
On 04/05/2012 07:01, Martin Kelly wrote: Thanks Jim for your encouragement and support. What your suggesting is an interesting idea, like Pat Villani's original idea of implementing FreeBSD drivers into DOS. This idea intrigues me alot, i am a big BSD fan especially NetBSD and DragonflyBSD,

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Development Idea

2012-05-04 Thread Martin Kelly
[QUOTE: Robert Riebisch: Newbies, please use your enthusiasm to write new apps! :-) :QUOTE] Well thats a bit of a statement and makes a huge assumption on your part! No offense intended, How does enthusiasm relate to lacking knowledge in a given area. How can you even summise that there is

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Development Idea

2012-05-04 Thread Martin Kelly
On an expansion of before. Just like BSD and Linux are relatives of each other and just as capable of each other, why shouldn't DOS be able to be just as capable as its relative Windows? The DOS limitations are the limitations of old technology which are no longer current limitations. This

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Development Idea

2012-05-04 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Michael B. Brutman mbbrut...@brutman.com wrote: Analogies are a slippery slope. By many definitions, DOS is not even an operating system.  It is a device driver, file system, and rudimentary memory manager that stays resident while a user program is