Hello ROS-Devs,

I've been sharing some thoughts about DOS subsystem on ReactOS forum. I am pasting my last post (http://reactos.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2864#2864 )
here for your comments

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hello,

I am back with my silly posts Smile

But this time, after seriously reading and experimenting with FreeDos and DosEmu code.

As many people suggested FreeDOS as an option to run as ReactOS subsystem, I concentrated more on FreeDOS.

Something I came to know are

1) We need ReactOS DOS/Win16 subsystem so that we can run 16bit DOS applications on ReactOS.

2) FreeDOS itself is 16bit system

3) Compiling FreeDOS code with 32bit compiler is so difficult that it gave birth to a new project FreeDOS-32 (I tried compiling FreeDOS code with MinGW with no success)

4) FreeDOS-32 is in its infancy. Currently it can't even run simple DOS applications

5) DOSEmu is really slow



Please give your valuable suggestions.

AcetoliNe: I agree with your last post.
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~AzeemArif
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