Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list ready (but not yet posted)

2004-03-26 Thread tom ehlert
>>HIMEM /INT15H=... should not be extremely hard to do, so I vote for it. >> ASM> That's another argument that I like: low cost to implement it. A third ASM> opinion (or more) for the untie? a nice argument indeed: Eric thinks that it won't cost *me* a lot of time. LOL. tom --

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list ready (but not yet posted)

2004-03-26 Thread tom ehlert
>>> some others like Win 3.11 compat >>> should probably be fixed before we call it FreeDOS 1.0 ... >> >> There is probably a patent to prevent us of it anyway :( ASM> I don't think so... Did it prevent DR-DOS from doing that anyway? I ASM> think it's just a question of misscompatibilities here o

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list ready (but not yet posted)

2004-03-25 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:20:22 -0600, you wrote: Hi Uso, >3.31 actually (which first did >32 MB partitions) :P I remember crystal clear, this version was release by Compaq. I help my schoolmate to partition his 200MB Connor with this, otherwise drive letter will reach "I", horrible. Rgds, John

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list ready (but not yet posted)

2004-03-25 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Hi, Alain has introduced in this mail something interesting that was introduced in other posts too: the spec mentions a kernel compatible to MS-DOS 3.30, 3.31 actually (which first did >32 MB partitions) :P Alain escribió: some others like Win 3.11 compat should

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list ready (but not yet posted)

2004-03-25 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Eric Auer escribió: Hi, some comments on your comments... HIMEM /INT15H=... should not be extremely hard to do, so I vote for it. That's another argument that I like: low cost to implement it. A third opinion (or more) for the untie? Eric, you say DOS5 we have it more or less, I just watch the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list ready (but not yet posted)

2004-03-25 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Alain has introduced in this mail something interesting that was introduced in other posts too: the spec mentions a kernel compatible to MS-DOS 3.30, but actually I think that our current FreeDOS kernel is closer to 5.0 and sucessors than 3.30. Also 3.30 and 5.0 have many differences in da

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list ready (but not yet posted)

2004-03-25 Thread Alain
about fat32 testing: I believe a working DOSFSCK 2.10 just what is needed (not what is whished for). A ScanDisc-alike program would be nice, but IMHO what is really _needed_ is just some way of testing and fixing a fat32 disk, nothing fancy fust functional. This would give time to ScanDisk be i

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list ready (but not yet posted)

2004-03-25 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 25-Мар-2004 21:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA> HIMEM /HMAMIN=m is indeed not very useful. Being able to allocate PARTS EA> of the HMA would be nice but was not introduced before MS DOS 7 or so, EA> and before that time, HMAMIN protected the system from giv

[Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list ready (but not yet posted)

2004-03-25 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, some comments on your comments... HIMEM /INT15H=... should not be extremely hard to do, so I vote for it. HIMEM /HMAMIN=m is indeed not very useful. Being able to allocate PARTS of the HMA would be nice but was not introduced before MS DOS 7 or so, and before that time, HMAMIN protected t