Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS runtime library format

2020-12-29 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Mercury, > Was there ever any "official" format for a shared runtime library under > MS-DOS? Windows has .DLL files, Linux has .KO files, and MS-DOS had... > what, exactly? In all my years DOSsing I've never heard of anything > official like this, so I'm pretty sure there was no such thing (unl

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS runtime library format

2020-12-29 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel wrote: On Tuesday, December 29, 2020 11:44 AM, Steve Nickolas [email protected] wrote: ... I've had ideas for what I'd do if I were writing my own OS or my own DOS clone... but they'd probably be too weird for this list. ... But I, for

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS runtime library format

2020-12-29 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
On Tuesday, December 29, 2020 11:44 AM, Steve Nickolas [email protected] wrote: > ... > I've had ideas for what I'd do if I were writing my own OS or my own DOS > clone... but they'd probably be too weird for this list. > ... But I, for one, would love to hear those ideas.___

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS runtime library format

2020-12-29 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020, DosWorld via Freedos-devel wrote: Was there ever any "official" format for a shared runtime library under MS-DOS? ... Any constructive feedback would be appreciated! :D Here is no any standard. I can purpose few way: Experimental library format in msa2 -  https://github.co

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS runtime library format

2020-12-29 Thread DosWorld via Freedos-devel
> Was there ever any "official" format for a shared runtime library under > MS-DOS? > ... > Any constructive feedback would be appreciated! :D > Here is no any standard. I can purpose few way: Experimental library format in msa2 -  https://github.com/DosWorld/msa2/tree/master/original/examples/O

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS runtime library format

2020-12-29 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
First, thanks to all who replied! Good stuff. :) Also: On Monday, December 28, 2020 5:02 PM, Danilo Pecher [email protected] wrote: > Well, one could also question the point of shared libraries in a system that > doesn't support multitasking. > ... It's not so much a matter of mu