Well, Joey,
on my opinion FreeDOS is just what it is extending the life of the old MS-DOS so long because its beeing so slim, light and representing a very low level OS. It works on nearly any IBMPC based hardware. The things you are supposing will of course bring much more overhead into it, specialization, hardware size and speed dependency and will make the system unusable for hardware bound fast working controlling apps. For example, it works fast and without any problem on a system with 4 MB (not GB!) memory or even less. There are already a lot of Windows-like "operating surfaces" available for FreeDOS, like seal f.i. or the gem you mentioned, which improve the basic system into the direction you suppose it to walk, you may use protected mode by extenders and so on. Its all possible, but please, keep the kernel small! Replace command.com by anything you like that will be started as "the" OS you like to have, I'd like to have that small thing with such a lot of software working on it.
Greetings! Jo Elegolo, a Methusela of the Computer Age.
Gesendet: Samstag, 26. Oktober 2013 um 20:37 Uhr
Von: "Joey Puopolo" <[email protected]>
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Betreff: [Freedos-devel] The FreeDOS I hope to see
Von: "Joey Puopolo" <[email protected]>
An: [email protected]
Betreff: [Freedos-devel] The FreeDOS I hope to see
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From: Joey Puopolo <[email protected]>
Date: October 26, 2013 at 12:20:41 PM PDT
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: The FreeDOS I hope to see
Hi everybody!
i just joined the mailing list and I tried out FreeDOS. Im totally impressed that this exists hah!
Im a web developer and UX designer, so I know _javascript_, python, html etc, so clearly my programming skills wont be much use until at least version 3.0.
But I can totally see this as being a great solution for an embedded system. I saw opengem, and tried it out, but a great minimalistic interface would work really well for FreeDOS - something similar to what Windows 8 uses for it's start screen. I will be tinkering around with opengem to see if I can get something like that working. I would think it would be minimal enough to have it be natively included in the kernel.
I also think FreeDOS could appeal more to the media and get more publicity in tech field, and therefore more developer support, if some "modern" esthetic aspects that we see in different touch devices etc were brought into the project. For example, if zoom were somehow made available by OS(regardless of the current program, even freecom/command.com. so maybe a zoom solution could be a change to the display?). Speaking of command.com, maybe touch/cutemouse support could be added. Another esthetic that could be added is utilizing some modern font options (think OpenDroid, or firefox's open fonts).
Again some of these things are not actually important, but they could bring more developers into the project.
Im not sure if any of these things can even be done without the kernel being natively loaded into protected mode? Maybe some of these, at least, can be emulated for fun to show potential developers some esthetic potential.
Ok, so Im rambling now haha. These are just some of the ideas that flew through my head while poking around. I wish i knew more about memory and OS-level programming to really knock some things off the project's to-do list.
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