On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Michael Robinson
wrote:
>> Why are you assuming said DOS system will be accessed by multiple
>> strangers? For things like FreeDOS, there will be a single user who
>> installs it in the first place and runs it after it is. While it's
>> theoretically possible to
A kiosk is a multiple user system, but not necessarily a
simultaneously multiple user system. So DOS will work most likely.
Chances are though, the DOS system files and tools themselves need to be
on read only memory if there is any possibility of a person being at a
command line and making a
At 09:20 AM 1/11/2012, dmccunney wrote:
>I ran DesqView, back in the day. It worked surprisingly well.
>I recall one BBS sysop running four instances of a Wildcat BBS on a
>25mhz AT under DV. He could have 4 nodes connected to four modems and
>operating simultaneously on on machine.
It did indee
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Ralf A. Quint wrote:
> At 07:39 AM 1/11/2012, dmccunney wrote:
>>Please recall that DesqView, DesqViewX, GEM, and Windows through 9.X
>>were precisely GUIs strapped onto a DOS environment.
>
> Just for the record, DesqView is not a GUI, but a text mode
> multi-tas
At 07:39 AM 1/11/2012, dmccunney wrote:
>Please recall that DesqView, DesqViewX, GEM, and Windows through 9.X
>were precisely GUIs strapped onto a DOS environment.
Just for the record, DesqView is not a GUI, but a text mode
multi-tasking/task-switching add-on for DOS and basically an
extension t
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:36 AM, Michael Robinson
wrote:
> The problems encountered strapping a GUI onto a DOS system are similar
> to the problems that were encountered when object orientation and
> classes were added to C to create C++. C++ is really a hybrid language,
> neither a strictly proc
The problems encountered strapping a GUI onto a DOS system are similar
to the problems that were encountered when object orientation and
classes were added to C to create C++. C++ is really a hybrid language,
neither a strictly procedural nor a strictly object oriented language.
Any GUI strapped
