On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Steve Nickolas <
lyricalnanoha@usot...> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, Andreas Berger wrote:
>
> > Writing a multitasker is easy, but I have no understanding about how
> > DPMI, rings and resource allocation work. I think the idea of a
> > bare-bone linux behind the scene is a very good. Truth be told I would
> > like to see OS/2 resurrected with true DOS windows.
>
> A free OS/2 clone would really be nice.  And the DOS personality could be
> implemented by FreeDOS code (plus the OS/2 side of the DOS command stuff
> in c:\os2).
>
> -uso.
>
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Really fills the open source market. I mean, FreeDOS fills the DOS position,
ReactOS maps on to the NT, and then another project for OS/2. Maybe...

For multitasking, I two situations: 1. do it in real mode. 2. do it in V86
mode. For V86 (virtual 8086) mode, a minimal Linux + DOSEmu sounds the best
solution to me, because although it requires a Linux, as we have modern
machines with ample RAM (for DOS and a minimal Linux, at least) and ample
hard disk space, and these two are ready stuff, there is really no need to
bother other solutions.

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Robbie (Decheng) Fan (aka Robbie Mosaic)