Hi,
On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 9:05 PM Michael Brutman via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> Just an opinion, but it's bad software design to assume that the presence or
> a peripheral implies
> a certain class of machine. The presence of a CD-ROM should not imply a 386
> or better machine;
> it's orthogon
On Tue, 8 Aug 2023, Rugxulo via Freedos-devel wrote:
Long story short: I don't think FreeDOS not having a DOSshell clone is
a significant omission. Nobody will write the "program switcher" code
(too complex), and we already have file managers. So I don't see what
else it would offer. Feel free t
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 10:46 AM Kirn Gill via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 7:24 PM Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
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>> Wikipedia says the 286 "was designed for multi-user systems with
>> multitasking applications". OS/2 1.x targeted it.
>
> Multitasking requires no s
Microsoft Engineer "Steve Ballmer" ?
Ballmer was on the business side of things at Microsoft. He didn't write
code.
On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 11:27 AM M. J. Bethlehem via Freedos-devel <
freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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> > The original plan was to let Windows fade away after 2.x;
> The original plan was to let Windows fade away after 2.x; there was an
> engineer at Microsoft that mostly improved Windows by himself enough to run
> all of the Microsoft Office components at the same time (a difficult, if
> not impossible feat under Windows 2.x of any flavor) and got an execut
On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 7:24 PM Rugxulo via Freedos-devel <
freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 7:45 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 at 17:55, Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I believe "task swapping" w
