Re: Re: distro
By: Dumas Walker to ENNEV on Sat Dec 23 2017 06:14 pm
DW> I know DOS is dead and all, but one product I wish would have been
DW> released open source when the owner abandonded it was Desqview... well,
DW> that and QEMM. Someone bought Quarterdeck, IIRC, and then let those
DW> products die.
That would have been interesting. I'm not sure what development would have
been done on it if it was open-sourced though.. I know there are open-source
DOS projects still around (FreeDOS and OpenDOS), but it seems there isn't much
of any official DOS support anymore and hasn't been for a long time. If
someone is going to run DOS these days, it would probably be on an old PC or in
an emulation environment, and in either case, I'd expect the original QEMM and
Desqview to work (hopefully). If it would need tweaks to work in emulated
machine, then perhaps it would be useful to open-source it.
Nightfox
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