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- From: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: 32-bit DOS
- Keywords: 32-bit, DOS, Advanced Operating Systems
- Message-ID: <4117@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 08:02:33 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.103942.19508@newsroom.bsc.no>
- Sender: news@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
- Reply-To: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1992Aug28.103942.19508@newsroom.bsc.no>, izahi@bsc.no (Raul Izahi Lopez Hernandez) writes:
- >
- > Is a 32-bit version of DOS, viable or desirable?
- Yes. maybe.
- > Is it possible to change DOS in a way that all the non-RAM above 640K
- > can be moved somewhere else and that DOS can execute in a flat memory model?
- no; besides if you make a 32 bit DOS it's not going to be DOS
- compatible; thus say adios to 640 k limits.
- > I would like to be able to declare arrays larger than 64KB and be able to
- > do 32-bit disk accesses.
- no problem
- > Would it be possible to run 16-bit DOS underneath such engine?
- I sincerely hope so; I love Falcon 3.0.
- > I would not like the added complexity of OS/2 or Windows, just a true
- > 32-bit DOS.
-
-
- Ny understanding is that this is precisely what Microsoft is working
- on at this moment. It's not DOS 6, but something about a year later;
- Comdex Spring/Fall '94. I believe they are even going to throw in a
- Windows kernel for those folks who like linking objects to virtual
- unthreaded inanimate frame structures. Hey, let's talk about this
- before MS makes the best guys around here sign an NDA...
-
- If DOS 6 is DOS 5 with a bunch of third-party goodies thrown in;
- what is _DOS 7_ ???
-
- Are the guys in Redmond smart enough to realize that there is need
- for both a gooey picture thingie _AND_ a DOS-like creature??
-
- Aki.
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