[ros-kernel] 16-bit dos

[Casper Hornstrup]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ros-kernel-bounces at reactos.com 
> [mailto:ros-kernel-bounces at reactos.com] On Behalf Of 
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> Sent: 25. marts 2004 14:45
> To: ros-kernel at reactos.com
> Subject: RE: [ros-kernel] 16-bit dos
> 
> Are you seriously saying that we shouldn't include 16-bit 
> application support, for DOS or even Windows 3.1 apps? I've 
> heard various stories of companies having to spend lots of 
> money to just migrate old databases from MS-DOS applications, 
> just so they can continue using them.
> 
> This results in possible incompatibilities, staff re-training 
> (to use the new system), and the newer application may be 
> more unstable than the original.

ReactOS is free software, you can do almost whatever you want with
it. If you want to implement DOS APIs, knock yourself out. If there is
the big need for it as many people has expressed there is, then there
must be enough people wanting to do the work. What I am concern about
is that adding support for DOS and Win16 may make ReactOS much more
complex. If so, then I think that DOS and Win16 support should be a
separate open source project with it's own version control repository.

Casper