On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 06:23 -0800, dos386 wrote: > This is off-topic and irrelevant anyway ...
No it is not and it is rude of you to say that it is. It is not because one of the goals of Freedos development has been to at least support the versions of Windows that ran on top of dos. The natural next step is to replace those versions of Windows. OpenGem is no different from Windows 9x or 3.x in the respect that it runs on top of DOS. It is different in the sense that it works with Freedos where Windows 9x doesn't and Windows 3.x somewhat doesn't. Microsoft doesn't sell Windows 3.x or 9x anymore, the attitude of Microsoft is that nobody uses dos anymore so nobody needs a version of Windows that works with it. The reality is, there is this thing called the Win32 API that Windows 9x and Windows 3.x support among other APIs. Making this available under dos without implementing a Windows 3.x or 9x replacement would be very difficult. Now then, at this time there aren't enough developers to take on cloning Windows 3.x or Windows 9x, but that alone doesn't make discussing a Windows 3.x or Windows 9x replacement irrelevant. There are many Windows programs that only work in dos based Windows. There is such a thing as a dos based Windows program, try to run it at the dos prompt ( any version ) and you'll get a this requires Microsoft Windows error. Many of these same programs either don't work or don't work correctly in Windows NT and other NT based versions of Windows. Right now, one of the goals of the kernel developers is to support Windows 3.x better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
