Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-31 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:01:32 +0100, you wrote: Hi Gerry, I don't really understand the interest in this. Why would anyone want to install it? I mean we all have CD-ROM and bootable memory sticks these days. Why not just release a bunch of files and let people write their own installers. It's

Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-31 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Johnson Lam schreef: 8086 with FAT32 simultaneous is not practical. Maybe someone still own a 8086 PC but please consider support from 80386, because today's DOS program or XMS is for 80386. we're just mentioning that should run on 8086, and that they should support fat32. Not that FAT32 on

[Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-28 Thread Andre Tertling
Hello out there, six days without a single message on this list... is there something wrong with my email account or the list? Best regards, Andre --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a

Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-28 Thread seorge
BTW: when we can expect 1.0? --- Original message --- From: Bernd Blaauw [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] ping? Date: Friday 28 October 2005 17:25 pong Hello out there, six days without a single message on this list

Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-28 Thread Bernd Blaauw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: BTW: when we can expect 1.0? End of next year. For what still needs to be done, please see http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/Todo_1_0 Delaying 1.0 beyond next year would make no sense, the amount of DOS users is limited. Already FreeDOS is very stable and usable, yet

Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Bernd, and 1.0 Preview series should start in Januari 2006. No point rushing it:) If we only would have to consider the same goals as Microsoft's DOS 5.00, then we're at 99% currently. Surely it's way ahead of any real-mode o/s Microsoft has ever written? I'm already using it (with

Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-28 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Gerry Hickman schreef: Surely it's way ahead of any real-mode o/s Microsoft has ever written? I'm already using it (with the help of umbpci) to build production servers with the latest hardware. MS-DOS 5 and 6 are unusable on these boxes. MS-DOS FDISK isn't scriptable, and can't cope with huge