[ros-dev] (Free)DOS subsystem

[fd0man™—The Magical Floppy Man]

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 19:34 -0600, ShadowFlare wrote:

> Hmm, I'm not sure if it is really even necessary to directly support
> DOS programs.  One thing I thought of that I should mention here is
> that Microsoft doesn't even support DOS programs at all with their
> latest Windows versions (Windows XP and Server 2003 x64 Editions).
> However, that isn't really a problem since there are alternatives to
> Windows' DOS support (which wasn't really even that great in some ways
> in Windows 2000 or XP to begin with anyway). 
> 
> I don't know why, but for some reason I'm thinking it would just kind
> of be a waste of time to implement NTVDM for ReactOS if the developers
> working on it would be able to work on other parts of ReactOS.  Hmm,
> it might be at least somewhat worthwhile to work on a NTVDM alternate
> that could run on both ReactOS and Windows (possibly even x64
> editions), though. 
> 
> Well, just my opinions on the matter.
> 
> -ShadowFlare
> 


Doesn’t NTVDM also handle WOW (Windows on Windows) sessions with 16-bit
Windows applications?  I seem to recall when I worked at AT&T having
(quite a few) applications that the only way they could be killed was to
kill NTVDM and another process (old[something]app or something?) and
then restart the application.  In any case, there are still quite a bit
of software applications that are available online that would make use
of these types of subsystems—and it would be nice, I think, to continue
supporting something that Microsoft does not, and improve upon it,
because that would just be another point in favor of getting people to
use free software.  Right?  :-)

    — Mike

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