Actually I'm a subscriber of both lists so I might lend a little
insight. FD's current and primary mission is to get a working
DOS 3.3x compatible work-alike going. Next would be to add the
fancy gizmos and such to the OS. Multitasking and 386 versions
are very much coveted but those in charge feel that it is less
important than getting a working version. Since the original
maintainer left the project, developement has sped up greatly
and more people are involved. Though the project owes Pat for
releasing his original kernel thru GPL, the project also owes
Pat for leaving the project. Many had resentment towards him
for "code hoarding" though cannot say that I feel the same
because I never attempted (I'm pretty much a lurker on both
lists ;). I believe now that all help is greatly welcomed
and additions that ELKS/GNU/anyone can bring will be of great
help.
Louis
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Chad Page wrote:
>
> This sounds like something that would best be coordinated with the
> FreeDOS people. I'm sure they'd like to have multitasking working with
> the regular version as well, if it isn't considered outside the project
> scope. The implementation would probably be quite different from ELKS
> since it has to support large model DOS binaries. Could get hairy esp.
> with apps which don't follow the rules or free up memory.
>
> BTW, DOSbell sounds quite cool. As to ELKS compatibility would be
> source-level if there was a similar libc for DOSbell.
>
> - Chad
>
>
> On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote:
>
> > No, it is not GPL, it is not free software. You must (I beleive) pay a
> > licensing fee to Caldera to get the source. A better thing would be to
> > take the multitasking stuff from ELKS.
> >
> > On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Perry Harrington wrote:
> >
> > > You can get the source to Novell Dos 7 from Caldera, off their website, it's
> > > been GPLd I believe. Anyhow DRDOS 6.0 and Novell Dos 7.0 had 286 task switchers
> > > with them as a 'program'.
> > >
> > > > Hmm.. Is there any code out there that is 8-bit and quite reliable at task
> > > > switching. Its a pity I can't get Dosshell's source code (remember, from
> > > > MS-DOS 5.0?). I'm going to make a simple task switcher and then add some
> > > > timing to it to come up with a pseudo-stable multitasking environment.
> > > >
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