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- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!cd897
- From: cd897@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (J. R. Seguin)
- Subject: Re: Pissed off at Microsoft.
- Message-ID: <DLuBnE.C1I@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Sender: cd897@freenet3.carleton.ca (J. R. Seguin)
- Reply-To: cd897@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (J. R. Seguin)
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- References: <eclipse-2501960300550001@ts-24.pacific.net> <4e95ts$ptk@cloner3.netcom.com> <4ebi15$ps8@cloner2.ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 12:50:02 GMT
-
- George R Faulkner (faulkne1@ix.netcom.com) writes:
- > In <4e95ts$ptk@cloner3.netcom.com> faulkne1@ix.netcom.com(George R
- > Faulkner ) writes:
- >>
- >>In <eclipse-2501960300550001@ts-24.pacific.net> eclipse@pacific.net
- >>(Rich) writes:
- >>>
- >>>It occurs to me that the only real thing Microsoft has is windows and
- >>DOS,
- >>>the DOS part I am willing to live with but the BS. games that
- >>Microsoft
- >>>plays with Windows. has lead me to decide that we need a new OS
- >>>environment that is faster and easier to use, and most importantly
- > NOT
- >>>OWNED BY MICROSOFT. I have developed a prototype of a OSE(Operating
- ...snip...
- >>... In fact, if you really wanted it to be popular, add in
- >>support for OS/2, and maybe even Unix.
- >>
- >>I hate Windows too! Blue skies with clouds are not for me.
- > Hey, and how about another thing, if possible. For real-mode DOS
- > programs, allow users to set the amount of conventional memory
- > by taking away from some of the extended memory, and allow
- > DOS programs to have more than 640K conventional memory.
- > Also, include a free compiler/interpreter for either C/C++ or
- > Basic, and also support for batch files. Also, include
- > a disk compression utility.
- >
-
- Don't forget to put in hooks for REXX and/or Perl!
-
- > Oh yeah, and another thing: make it possible to remove drivers
- > and TSR's from memory without rebooting, including removing
- > memory managers, such as whatever the equivelent of EMM386
- > and HIMEM are going to be.
- >
- > Also, allow users to specify that a DOS program not use
- > virtual memory no matter what, and that no other programs
- > run in the background, and swap all memory not regarding
- > the operating system and the DOS program to virtual memory,
- > so that the DOS program has FULL system attention, so
- > that the program will not slow down.
-
- Hmm... I sure hope it can run on a PC ;^)
-
- JRS
-
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