It's very interesting that Linux appears to have a legitimately licensed implementation, which I think means they had to pay some money to MS? Could that license (via GPL?) perhaps be extended to downstream implementations based on it, like FreeDOS?
The licensing implications are certainly a consideration, though less of a concern to me than the technical piece of it. The main thing I would like to see in a DOS implementation would be the flexibility to do "plug-and-play" with the disks. The main need for this would of course be USB disks, but could also apply to any other type of removable media that may come down the pike (for example, DVD-RAMs which can be formatted with hard drive file systems like FAT32 and exFAT). At a minimum, this would mean that the functionality would need to exist in the OS (or in a device driver / TSR of some sort) even if no exFAT disk was found at boot time (or when the driver was installed). In addition, there should be some sort of system call to identify that the functionality is installed so other software would know whether it's OK to mount the exFAT volume(s) when new media is inserted. ____________________________________________________________ Want to place your ad here? Advertise on United Online http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/56033d0b9e4c3d0a34d1st04vuc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
