From owner-freebsd-emulation Sun Aug 31 12:14:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA14144 for emulation-outgoing; Sun, 31 Aug 1997 12:14:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ohm.ingsala.unal.edu.co ([168.176.15.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA14139 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 1997 12:14:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co (unalmodem15.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.45]) by ohm.ingsala.unal.edu.co (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA01223; Sun, 31 Aug 1997 14:16:02 -0500 (COT) Message-ID: <3409DDBB.4C96@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 14:10:19 -0700 From: "Pedro Giffuni S," Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold [it] (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith CC: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DOSemu Alterer Novices Guide and technical guide References: <199708311550.BAA03007@word.smith.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mike Smith wrote: > > They were planning to do this a year ago, at about the same time that I > was evaluating FreeDOS for use with doscmd. The major problem with > FreeDOS is that the DOS-C kernel had *no* networking support > whatsoever, and its internal structures (eg. the LoL) were completely > incompatible with those of MS-DOS. A slightly better bet would be the > Caldera OpenDOS, if they ever get around to releasing the source under > usable conditions. > I think what they are trying to do now, from what Pat Villani shared, is embed the C-kernel in order not to require redirector. Perhaps something like doscmd does so that you don't need to boot. > As it is, the binary release of ODOS works quite nicely. > Once again their license sucks, and you need like four compilers to build the kernel, but ODOS is an excellent testing ground. cheers, Pedro.