>
>
> FreeDOS-32 was born dead IMHO. You simply can't not do what they had in
> mind and still be "100% application compatible". That's why they had to
> start over and over again, without really getting anywhere.
> And you won't find anyone writing any new software for it that fills all
> the needs & purposes of (still) existing 16bit DOS software. Any such
> effort is better spend on producing user applications for Linux.
> And that $2500 Kickstarter goal won't buy you even one month of developer
> time. And one has to be smoking some really bad stuff to think that such a
> project could be done in such short period of time anyway...
>
>
It's not my kickstarter project, but I'll watch and see what happens. I
agree that FreeDOS-32 is a tough prospect. As you can guess from my other
post, I'm very concerned that they can maintain any application
compatibility while adding modern hardware support. If they can't keep
compatibility, it's a dead end. But if they can, it's worth looking at.
Even NovOS (also another post) was a tough sell to Novell, because it hoped
to provide backwards compatibility while offering a whole new API to do
"new" stuff. It sounds great until you try to do it.
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