From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) Subject: Re: dosemu and windows Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 01:17:29 GMT
In article <100211@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob) writes:
>In <C7yoyF.5tH@ra.nrl.navy.mil> eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) writes:
..
>However, I simply cannot understand how it will be done. Unless
>someone can find /dev/manhours, the inexhaustible supply of
>programming effort, it just isn't going to happen. The best
>programmers among us are UNIX hackers at heart and have little
>patience for the arcana of DOS and Windows. Yet I doubt that Ralf
>Brown and Andrew Schulmann together--two of the most knowledgeable men
>in the DOS world-- would feel up to the task of writing a completely
>compatible Windows kernel.
Actually, complete compatibility is not an absolute requirement.
If it supported only pure 3.1 mode (pure?) it might be useful.
Can many windows applications count on things like the bios
and dos? Anyways, we could play with just getting some
PD windows progs working.
Peter