Re: [Freedos-devel] Why 1.0 (was: Horrible Joke)

2006-07-04 Thread Lyrical Nanoha
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Imre Leber wrote: (I said) >> >> I've myself mentioned a couple times (years ago) my plan to take FreeDOS >> in a new direction but it depends on me being able to use certain tools >> that do not yet work for me. (i.e., anything using WatTCP/WatT32). If I >> could get WatT32 w

Re: [Freedos-devel] Why 1.0 (was: Horrible Joke)

2006-07-04 Thread Imre Leber
>-Original Message- >From: Lyrical Nanoha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, July 4, 2006 08:44 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Why 1.0 (was: Horrible Joke) > >On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, HCL BA wrote: > >> The version

Re: [Freedos-devel] Why 1.0 (was: Horrible Joke)

2006-07-03 Thread Lyrical Nanoha
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, HCL BA wrote: > The version number is not important to me as FreeDOS has passed through some > milestones. > Being compatible to MSDOS 3.3 is good enough. Forget the Windows series, > List, Dbase 3, Lotus 123, Laplink and Wordstar just play well with 640K > memory. > > I think

Re: [Freedos-devel] Why 1.0 (was: Horrible Joke)

2006-07-03 Thread HCL BA
Hello, This is a long overdue project. I do worry if I can stay alive to cheer the official 1.0 version. My 80186 laptop died last year, and my clock is ticking. I feel uneasy to answer my nephew what I was doing with the computer all these years. Why it take so long, and to show him what have

Re: [Freedos-devel] Why 1.0

2006-07-01 Thread Florian Xaver
Yes, I also think so - it *is* time for version 1.0. Bye Flo Jim Hall wrote: > Jim Hall wrote: >> [...] >> It's as though we're afraid of the "1.0" label, sort of asymptotically >> approaching "1.0" but never really getting there. >> > > > > A lot of people probably wonder "why is '1.0'

Re: [Freedos-devel] Why 1.0

2006-06-29 Thread Alain M.
Hi Jim, I have been following FreeDOS for many years now and I am very sad that so many people are loosing interest when we are so close to having a working FreeDOS ... I will start working more hands on. Mainly because I will start *using* FreeDOS. The only bug that I cannot be sure of fixing

[Freedos-devel] Why 1.0 (was: Horrible Joke)

2006-06-29 Thread Jim Hall
Jim Hall wrote: > [...] > It's as though we're afraid of the "1.0" label, sort of asymptotically > approaching "1.0" but never really getting there. > A lot of people probably wonder "why is '1.0' so important?" I feel we need to get "1.0" out there to draw a line in the sand, that we're a