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DR-DOS 8.1 (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 22.11.2007, 12:36
(edited by Rugxulo on 22.11.2007, 13:25)

> Yes I'm satisfied with UMBPCI under MSDOS and FreeDOS.
And JEMMEX, of course. ;-)

> I found taskmgr is the best. It's small and preemtive (backgroud is
> running) and don't eat much low memory as desqview. It can hadnle also
> PMode apps, I was able to switch 2 Quake games and DN :)
Not sure why you need to run DN and Quake (x 2!) at the same time. ;-)

But yeah, maybe DRDOS, Inc. should open source TASKMGR when/if they get ??? amount of money (pay the bills, etc). Then again, I know that's impossible and laughable to some people that I even pretend that such could happen. Oh well, whatever's best for them, I guess. They probably need to hire some more programmers to get a "real" 8.x out the door.

> I heared of them, I have a copy of REAL/32 TSX I didn't find yet. But I
> expect this will be less compatible than plain dos without such advanced
> features. Nice on taskmgr is that can be loaded when needed.
I think multitasking is somewhat overrated (dare I say that? I can hear the boos already, heh!). Compiling in the background, listening to music, searching for files, copying, archiving/backing up, okay ... but otherwise, who cares? I'm sure somebody out there could (has already?) made it easy to write such apps (like aforementioned methods). Too bad I'm too lazy/busy/stupid to do it myself. I seem to only do tiny, incremental things (like my recent DISKCOPY or XCOPY 1.4 "dir attrib" patch ... better than nothing, I suppose). ;-)

> Yes, see above post :)
Maybe Minix 3.x is the future for those of us who dislike Linux's bloat. (I hear it's got virtual memory, more or less.) Or we could always just use "old" Minix-VMD or DOS-Minix. But like I said, I dunno about MMX, FPU, SSE. Then again, 99% of DOS programs don't need (or want) those either. ;-)

> I know NDN has more features. E.g. DISASM view is nice. Also it's nice to
> have NDN Linux version because I still see on MC as some poor Volkov clone
> :) DN rulez.
DOSZip is nice too. But I usually just poke around on the cmdline unless copying to/from dirs a lot.

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