Richard Bonner
09-01-2004, 03:21 AM
DOS Guy wrote:
Admittedly, I haven't used this 'DOS 7.1' distribution extensively. I merely installed it and played with it for awhile, to see what was up.
It seems to work as advertised, although I'm not willing to commit to it. I'll stick with my DR-DOS 8.0, thanks very much. :)
Still, the hacked 'DOS 7.1' is an impressive achievement. They've apparently managed to separate the 'DOS' from the underlying multi-megabytes of WinDoze processes and cruft, and created a small, viable stand-alone O.S.
They've even separated out the WinDoze GUI, and made it a separate, optional 'DOS' app. Pretty darn creative!
*** Clever people, those Chinese...
Richard Bonner
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/
Admittedly, I haven't used this 'DOS 7.1' distribution extensively. I merely installed it and played with it for awhile, to see what was up.
It seems to work as advertised, although I'm not willing to commit to it. I'll stick with my DR-DOS 8.0, thanks very much. :)
Still, the hacked 'DOS 7.1' is an impressive achievement. They've apparently managed to separate the 'DOS' from the underlying multi-megabytes of WinDoze processes and cruft, and created a small, viable stand-alone O.S.
They've even separated out the WinDoze GUI, and made it a separate, optional 'DOS' app. Pretty darn creative!
*** Clever people, those Chinese...
Richard Bonner
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/