Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-03 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, Apologies if this is *slightly* off-topic. On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 7:01 PM Bret Johnson wrote: > > Let me just say that the computing world would be a VERY different place than > it is now if Operating Systems > (and maybe even BIOS's) were re-entrant. For one thing, MS probably never > wo

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-03 Thread Bret Johnson
> duh? have you ANY idea what you are talking about? just a tiny bit? Yeah, I think I do. Let me just say that the computing world would be a VERY different place than it is now if Operating Systems (and maybe even BIOS's) were re-entrant. For one thing, MS probably never would have became the

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-03 Thread tom ehlert
Hallo Herr Bret Johnson, am Freitag, 3. März 2023 um 23:40 schrieben Sie: >>> But I was still wondering if anybody has seen it done before since >>> I don't think I've ever seen an actual implementation. >> >> neither did I. > Probably not worth pursuing. But even just the idea of a > re-entran

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Edlin 2.22 released!

2023-03-03 Thread Jim Hall
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 4:27 PM Gregory Pietsch wrote: > > Twenty years in the making, FreeDOS Edlin 2.22 is now released unto > an unsuspecting world. The latest bug report/feature request that I > have tried to tackle is one that backup files aren't created if the > backup file already exists and

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-03 Thread Bret Johnson
>> But I was still wondering if anybody has seen it done before since >> I don't think I've ever seen an actual implementation. > > neither did I. Probably not worth pursuing. But even just the idea of a re-entrant Operating System (rather than just a re-entrant sub-function) is a pretty interes

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Edlin 2.22 released!

2023-03-03 Thread Gregory Pietsch
Twenty years in the making, FreeDOS Edlin 2.22 is now released unto an unsuspecting world. The latest bug report/feature request that I have tried to tackle is one that backup files aren't created if the backup file already exists and is read-only. This is consistent with historical (hysterical)

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-03 Thread tom ehlert
Hi, > I'm wondering if anybody has any experience, or has seen any source > code, related to manipulating the DOS Swappable Data Area (SDA) to > make DOS re-entrant. I working on at least one TSR program right > now where I think something like that might be useful but I've never seen it > done

[Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-03 Thread Bret Johnson
I'm wondering if anybody has any experience, or has seen any source code, related to manipulating the DOS Swappable Data Area (SDA) to make DOS re-entrant. I working on at least one TSR program right now where I think something like that might be useful but I've never seen it done before. The