Hi,
On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 at 01:19, Adam Nielsen via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > Well, this will be a spoiler of the "Unauthorized Windows95" :)
> > Better read the book if you can, but here you go a summary.
> > I write it to try and clarify some misunderstandin
> Well, this will be a spoiler of the "Unauthorized Windows95" :)
> Better read the book if you can, but here you go a summary.
> I write it to try and clarify some misunderstandings on VxDs and why I
> think they are great.
Wow that was really interesting, thanks for writing it! I didn't know
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Hello Adam,
On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 12:41, Adam Nielsen via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > Well, I tend to disagree with this, but by a semantic question :)
> > In my opinion, VMM32 and all the VXDs are DOS, not Windows. They sound
> to
> > me like the natural evo
>Going back to the original point, I remember finding it interesting how
>if you booted Win9x natively it pretty much took over the environment
>and DOS all but disappeared, however if you booted into MS-DOS mode and
>then ran "win", DOS was still there in the background (just not being
>used if yo
Hello, this quick message to announce that I decided to halt the
Svarog386 distribution. Its successor is SvarDOS: http://svardos.osdn.io
SvarDOS is based on the same concepts as Svarog386, but is meant to be
more universal, ie. including 8086 systems. Existing Svarog386
installations can be e
> Well, I tend to disagree with this, but by a semantic question :)
> In my opinion, VMM32 and all the VXDs are DOS, not Windows. They sound to
> me like the natural evolution of EMM386.EXE.
> For me, Windows starts with KRNL386.EXE, not before (or with WIN.COM).
I'm not familiar enough with VXDs
