I've used GEM, GEOS, and DOSShell all in the past and they all have quirks and
issues that make them all less than ideal for my use.
DOSShell is a really good idea (it supposedly used the same task-switching
mechanism that was in Windows 3.x), but I found it very clunky to use. It does
work pr
On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 at 20:07, Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel
wrote:
> PC DOS kept it in the main system until the
> end (PC DOS 2000 will still install it by default).
Sadly not. PC DOS 7.0 does not include it, and I had to install a copy
of PC DOS 6.3 in a separate VM to recover the DOSShell
On Fri, 28 Jul 2023, Jose Senna via Freedos-devel wrote:
While I am just an user, I also think that a
GUI for DOS is not an important improvement.
As Liam Proven, I think that a shell that
is a good app launcher, file manager and
provides fast task switching with a small
memory footprint would b
While I am just an user, I also think that a
GUI for DOS is not an important improvement.
As Liam Proven, I think that a shell that
is a good app launcher, file manager and
provides fast task switching with a small
memory footprint would be much more useful.
Since DOSShell was available In MS-DO
On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 at 22:23, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
> I'm also not clear on the use case of a DOS GUI these days. If you're
> going to use a GUI on DOS, then you need apps to run in it. Otherwise,
> it's a beautiful file manager and DOS app launcher that uses a bunch
> of memory.
Tha
