AW: [ros-kernel] 16-bit dos

[Wesley Parish]

As I remember it, one of the big complaints about OS/2 2.0 when it reached GA, 
was that its COM implementation was broken in that it couldn't work between 
OS/2 and the Windows subsystem.  Consequently IBM pulled out all stops for 
2.1 and it actually did work between OS/2 and the Windows subsystem.

Anyone know anything about what IBM did to make it work?  Anyone know who to 
ask at IBM about it?

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 08:20, Michael wrote:
> The filesystem isn't really a big problem, as we can mount all drives
> under the emulator as under the real hardware
>
> The clipboard can be shared too, as VMware does, with a little program.
> Registry could be done the same way, too.
>
> What about a DDE-Gateway? Is that doable?
>
> How important are other api-functions for communicating? Perhaps sharing
> the msg-queue? If we really need this, we could change the api-functions
> a little bit and add a gateway in the emulator.
>
> And, a working emulator with sharing the filesystem and the clipboard
> should be enough for over 99% of the cases, or? It is certainly better
> than nothing and it should be much easier then using the ntvdm thing.
>
> For DOS apps only the filesystem should be shared, so there should be
> much less problems.
>
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> [mailto:ros-kernel-bounces at reactos.com] Im Auftrag von Skywing
> Gesendet: Samstag, 27. Marz 2004 20:38
> An: 'ReactOS Kernel List'
> Betreff: RE: [ros-kernel] 16-bit dos
>
> Note that Win16 apps can communicate with Win32 apps (on NT and 9x).
> Just
> sticking them in a plain emulator isn't good enough (which seems to be
> approximately like coLinux - zero interaction between emulated and
> native
> programs).
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> To: 'ReactOS Kernel List'
> Subject: AW: [ros-kernel] 16-bit dos
>
> What about using Dosbox? It should be quietly simply to look whether if
> it's a DOS-App and then load a simple version of Dosbox without its
> shell.
> Dosbox is already almost running, but it has problems with OpenGL.
>
> And for the 16bit-Header from some Apps, especially installers, I think
> that wine has a workaround for it.
>
> And for 16bit-Windows apps we could use an old 16 bit wine, perhaps even
> usable in Dosbox or with Cgywin (or coLinux)?
>
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