4Dos is just a CCP replacement (replaces Command.com, not the whole of DOS.
you still need to havea DOS core to run it on.)
At 06:51 AM 7/14/01 -0500, you wrote:
>There was DrDos and 4Dos (also known as Norton NDos) as well. 4Dos I
>remember well as I still use it regularly on my old 5150 PC.
>
>-> -----Original Message-----
>-> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
>-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of R. D. Davis
>-> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 11:29 PM
>-> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
>-> Subject: MS/PC-DOS replacements (was: "History" of computing)
>->
>->
>->
>-> Speaking of MS-DOS or PC-DOS, how many here recall using improved
>-> MS-DOS replacements, overlays or "environments?" For example,
>-> Wendin-DOS
>-> and it's UNIX-like and VMS-like emulation, or such multi-tasking and
>-> multi-user envorinments that ran on top of MS/PC-DOS such as VMiX?
>->
>-> I remember first using VMiX to attach terminals to PeeCees as well as
>-> using this with a second monitor - I had both a Hercules color VGA
>-> card as well as a Hercules monochrome graphics adapter in the system
>-> and used both displays at one time. Sometimes VMiX would work and I
>-> could run my BBS (using the QuickBBS software) while also doing other
>-> things with the system. Alas, I never sent in the registration fee
>-> for VMiX and hence never got the full technical details/documentation,
>-> etc. that would have supposedly made it more useful. Did anyone here
>-> ever register it and get that info.?
>->
>-> This reminds me... I've got to figure out how to write a program
>-> to extract
>-> all of the old messages from the QuickBBS database files and save them as
>-> text files.
>->
>-> Getting back to Wendin-DOS, I understand that it's creator ended up
>-> being sucked into Microsoft as an employee. Does anyone know how many
>-> small companies that could have been good competetion got sucked up
>-> that way into the black hole known as Microsoft?
>->
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>->
Received on Sat Jul 14 2001 - 17:27:03 BST