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The revolution begins...
hm_murdock:
Windows 95 did not use DPMI. it's Win32, not "32 bit DOS"
flap:
quote:The command line should be there just in case the GUI goes down, and for vary rare ocasions where it is more efficient to use the command line.
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Most non-interactive tasks can be accomplished far more quickly and efficiently using the command line, if you know what you're doing.
Aloone_Jonez:
quote:Originally posted by JimmyJames: GenSTEP Founder:
Windows 95 did not use DPMI. it's Win32, not "32 bit DOS"
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Win32 included DPMI and it worked on the same principle:
File access was all buffered back to DOS, and it included DPMI like memory allocation, you still needed HIMEM.SYS to load windows. You could run 32bit console programs like NASM for Windows, there was even a program that would stub a DPMI subsystem onto these so they can run under plain DOS.
Anyway you haven't answered any of my other questions Jimmy.
hm_murdock:
Win32, dude. Not Win32s.
Even Windows for Workgroups used a native Windows protected mode for some things.
insomnia:
quote:A Window manager is hardly a full GUI.
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Euhm... why?
You don't even need it to have full GUI.
X is all you need.
quote:No, I just think that modern operating systems guzzle resources. Most people don't upgrade every 2 years, and as time passes people will upgrade less often. A decent (non bloated OS) shouldn't be the main strain of system resources.
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That's why a command line should be even more integrated in any GUI.
A GUI itself is bloat.
quote: but it should be useble on a 64MB system
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It is.
quote:The same should happen in Linux!
The command line should be there just in case the GUI goes down, and for vary rare ocasions where it is more efficient to use the command line.
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That same thing is what made Windows even worse.
If this would happen with Linux, I'd drop it and start using BSD.
What you seem to want is GUI build in the kernel.
That must be the worsed idea ever.
Do you really think any Linux user would like this.
[ July 20, 2004: Message edited by: insomnia ]
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