A thought experiment, could a 32 bit version of Freedos with a version of Opengem that can support modern hardawre run on one processor core while dos command lines that are actually full blown dos run on the other processor cores? Segment the memory so that each core, say 1 gig per core on a quad core, will not interfere with the other cores. What keeps Opengem from supporting say a modern laser or photo printer? What apps does Opengem support? I don't think Windows 3.1 or a Windows 3.1 clone is necessary and I know that it would be extremely hard to get there.
It would be nice if viewing JPEG images, photos, was possible in Opengem. There used to be an app in Slackware that lets you view JPEG images from the command line called seejpeg. There apparently used to be a version of DOS called concurrent dos that actually attempted or was capable of multitasking. Multitasking in the multiple core era should be more interesting where Linux is a great system, but it might be possible to squeeze more performance out. Figuring out what to use multiple cores for is a problem in today's world. What do you with seven cores? How about 100 cores? Multicore chips are not coming into existence because making faster single core chips doesn't make sense, they are coming into existence because making faster single core chips is impossible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
