from Sparky4:

> I think the FreeDOS 2.0 version should be a updated 16 bit kernel that can
> run in real mode by default

> and the freedos-32 stuff should merge with OSFree

I thought of that, a 32-bit version of FreeDOS could take ideas/features from 
OS/2 and eComStation.

I saw OS/2 as like a much-enhanced 32-bit DOS.

On osfree.org, it looks like progress is minimal, like watching grass grow at 
the South Pole.

I ran OS/2 from v1.3, the last 16-bit version, to Warp 4 with fixpack 12 when 
during the single-digit days of April 2001, following a crash/freeze, CHKDSK, 
running automatically, ran amok and trashed the hard-drive data.

I was never again able to boot OS/2 even with the installation floppies.

Since then, Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD have, as far as I can see, greatly 
overtaken eComStation in hardware support and functionality.

Even if FreeDOS-32 and OSFree could join forces, there would be a lot of 
catching up to do.

Tom


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