On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, Travis Siegel wrote: > Mike, I like your suggestions. One thing that always bothered me > about dos versions that have come out since ms dropped the ball is > their complete lack of inovation. I realize there's only so much > that can be done if you're intending to keep 100 percent > compatibility, but still, it's not hard to imagine such details as > enumerated here.
The last real innovation in DOS was with 3.3 back in 1987. Really everything since was taken from somewhere else, often from Digital Research or Norton. > One thing I wonder is why nobody builds a dos multitasker that simply > spawns a new virtual 386 machine for each new dos task. That would > keep 100 percent compatibility, and still allow complete and free > multitasking. The virtual 386 machines would take care of > virtualizing keyboards and video output automatically, since it's all > built into the 386 hardware. I'm fairly certain, none of that > ability has been removed with the newer cores and such. > I see no reason why this sort of thing couldn't work. I'm not > positive, but I think this is the approach vmix386 took, and why it > worked so well (at least with my testing) it would be fantastic to > have such an os. Definitely. And even Windows 3.x's DOS boxes prove that this can be done. > Another thing I wonder, is why it is that nobody has built anything > that allows executing of multiple oses on a single computer, using > one cpu core for each os, thereby allowing each os to run natively on > it's own cpu, thus eliminating the need to vertualize anything > (except perhaps output and input), but then each and every os would > have it's own cpu, and all of them would run at full native speeds. > Then you could have as many oses running as you have cpu cores to > handle them. I thought vmware's esx could do that? -uso. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerry® mobile platform with sessions, labs & more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerry® DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
