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- From: thecrow@iconn.net (The Crow)
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- Subject: Re: Pissed off at Microsoft.
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 04:21:17 GMT
- Organization: I rule the world
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- rl!
- >
- >> 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
- >
- You guys are running into the same traps microsft did. If you want to make a
- stable OS you have to kill off the backward compatibility (like NT) get
- imaginitive, forget about HIMEM and DOS and all that. I had an interesting
- idea, the main problem with STACKER and other double-space programs was the
- memory they took up and the overhead (it wasn't bad really) If you built the
- operating system from the ground up to have a compressed file system, you might
- even be able to make it FASTER than an ordinary system, because bytes would be
- physically closer together. Stacker managed to be about AS fast on low
- compression even though it had to deal with the DOS file system. Just an idea.
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