Hi, just giving my personal experience here... > Which kind of compatibility does FreeDOS aim for? > I mean compatible with which MS-DOS version? 6.22, > 7.10, 8.00?
Originally it was 3.3 because that was a version which worked with most apps and still relatively simple. Later we got UMB which are very useful so we aimed for 5.0 kernel compatibility. Remember that 5.0 and 6.22 basically have the same kernel. The 5.0 aim also meant that we did not need the extra apps that MS bought (not developed) to make 6.22 more fancy, but later we added much of that functionality nevertheless, e.g. DEFRAG... Now we also have LBA and FAT32, but I do not think that we want to be very MS Win98 DOS 7 compatible as this DOS was not even meant to run DOS apps anyway. So if you ask me: Our current goal is compatibility with MS DOS 5 / 6 kernel in the general case and a nice collection of apps similar to MS DOS 6... Plus support for new hardware in ways which may (FAT32, LBA) but do not need to be compatible to Win DOS 7. Note that we also have apps in our distro which have very little to do with what MS DOS tried to sell you when MS DOS 5, 6 or 7 were on the market. Eric :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
