Mind the many different "modes" in which this DOS/DPMI app. called Microsoft Windows can be run on.
(1) In the "real mode" (until Windows 3.0), with no protected mode at all, I ignore if it currently runs under FreeDOS.
(2) In the "standard mode" (until Windows 3.1), that is, using the DOSX DPMI server and extender, it runs up to bugs (or at least, there were some bugs time ago preventing Windows from running properly)
(3) In the "386 enhanced mode", that is, using Microsoft's VMM (a 32-bit OS and PC virtualizer), it doesn't run, because of technical reasons involving inter VMM-DOS communications that are not implemented (and are not likely to be implemented in the nearby future).
I did, have you?
DOSEmu does NOT implement DOS, but a PC-style BIOS machine. You need a DOS to install there. The bad news it: MS has just stopped supporting MS-DOS.
Well, FreePascal team have developed a Pascal compiler that has even operator overloading, and it's (almost) fully compatible with Delphi (ObjectPascal). It's a pitty that a nice GUI is under development.
It allows you to develop for Windows, Linux, OS/2, DOS, Amiga, FreeBSD...
And the best of all, it's GPL, and it worths trying.
Well, for an operating system costing as much as MS-Windows and pretending to be a competitor, I see a couple of problems.
First of all, I don't know which problems can be with the GNU-GPL license of Linux. If they don't include any kind of non-distributable code, then it might be distributed with PC-World or similar (as they do with other Linux distributions). In this case, perhaps they won't earn so much money as they thought (look Corel LinuxOS).
And second and most important, his argument for catching people to use Lindows instead of Windows is stability to run the 10 most used apps (Word, Excel, etc), which are mostly by Microsoft as well. What will the result be? As happened when a lot of other DOSes appeared, MS will just create new AARDs for Office, so that it only runs on Windows. And that's the end of the story.
I think they should try and encourage the use of other office suites, as KOffice, or better, StarOffice, as there won't be such problem with this packages.
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Mind the many different "modes" in which this DOS/DPMI app. called Microsoft Windows can be run on.
(1) In the "real mode" (until Windows 3.0), with no protected mode at all, I ignore if it currently runs under FreeDOS.
(2) In the "standard mode" (until Windows 3.1), that is, using the DOSX DPMI server and extender, it runs up to bugs (or at least, there were some bugs time ago preventing Windows from running properly)
(3) In the "386 enhanced mode", that is, using Microsoft's VMM (a 32-bit OS and PC virtualizer), it doesn't run, because of technical reasons involving inter VMM-DOS communications that are not implemented (and are not likely to be implemented in the nearby future).
> Emulation..... Uh... Heard of DOSemu?
I did, have you?
DOSEmu does NOT implement DOS, but a PC-style BIOS machine. You need a DOS to install there. The bad news it: MS has just stopped supporting MS-DOS.
Well, FreePascal team have developed a Pascal compiler that has even operator overloading, and it's (almost) fully compatible with Delphi (ObjectPascal). It's a pitty that a nice GUI is under development. It allows you to develop for Windows, Linux, OS/2, DOS, Amiga, FreeBSD... And the best of all, it's GPL, and it worths trying.
Well, for an operating system costing as much as MS-Windows and pretending to be a competitor, I see a couple of problems.
First of all, I don't know which problems can be with the GNU-GPL license of Linux. If they don't include any kind of non-distributable code, then it might be distributed with PC-World or similar (as they do with other Linux distributions). In this case, perhaps they won't earn so much money as they thought (look Corel LinuxOS).
And second and most important, his argument for catching people to use Lindows instead of Windows is stability to run the 10 most used apps (Word, Excel, etc), which are mostly by Microsoft as well. What will the result be? As happened when a lot of other DOSes appeared, MS will just create new AARDs for Office, so that it only runs on Windows. And that's the end of the story.
I think they should try and encourage the use of other office suites, as KOffice, or better, StarOffice, as there won't be such problem with this packages.
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