[ros-kernel] 16-bit dos

[Royce Mitchell III]

Nate DeSimone wrote:

>
>> 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.
>>  
>>
> I agree completely, no one is trying to prevent you from using the DOS 
> programs that you want to on ReactOS, its just no one who is currently 
> working on ReactOS feels like implementing support for it at the 
> moment.  However if anyone wants to write code for DOS support then go 
> right ahead, just understand that it probably will not merged into 
> ReactOS CVS anytime soon, if it becomes stable enough and elegant 
> enough and there is high demand for its inclusion then it might be.
>
I think it's important to implement 16-bit support into ReactOS, too, 
but I don't know where to begin on it, and think having a rock-solid 
32-bit is a little bit more important.