Re: [ros-general] dos support in reactos

[Mark IJbema]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:50:04PM +0100, Jan Tisje wrote:
>   Hi, 
>  
>  again, i cannot hold back my opinion
>  
> > >   Longer
> > > answer: Because there existing still a lot of programs created for
> > >  DOS, Win16 and so on. And it would be nice, to can all this older programs
> > >  run. 
> >  
> >  Is it really worth the thousands of hours of work and added complexity of
> >  ReactOS? 
>  
>  No. it is not. 
>  
>  List the programs you are using.
>  any DOS program on this list?  
Farmers use mostly DOS programs for the milking schemes and stuff, lots
of small businesses use DOS programs for accounting. Those two alone are
enough to support it. BTW, if you'd known WinNT internals you'd know
this _is_ actually done using a VM.

Mark