To all involved in the recent "Arachne" and "Windows" threads:
Look, you guys! We need "peace and quiet" on this and on all DOS forums, if DOS is to survive! Take it from a 63-year-old who has been in more than my own share of "wars", like many of you know, and which I regret for the damage to DOS they did. DOS is dying. Some may say no, but I "sense" it is used much less than before, in part due to all the arguments on this and other forums among people who still do use DOS. My goal now, for UIDE and all my drivers, is to make them the best possible so DOS will SURVIVE! To this end, (A) they are again offered to all, (B) their sources are again available, and (C) I shall work with anybody and EVERYBODY to make them better! Japheth helped me speed-up UIDE in "protected mode" and I sent him a "stripped" UIDEJR he can use to upgrade XDMA32/XCDROM32. He is busy with JWASM, but if he ever updates his JLM drivers, [for which I am NOT expert-enough in "protected mode"], I will help him all I can! Bernd Blaauw wanted changes to UIDE that help his automatic "scripts", and he got them! I am changing RDISK from a .SYS to a .COM file, which will then allow a user specified drive letter when loaded thru the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. [Not possible in CONFIG.SYS, a "long story" why!]. Anything else I can think of, I will do! If I can do all that, so can all of you. Let's end the WARS, and do our best to keep ALL versions of DOS alive! Jack R. Ellis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
