aiv@euraiv1.UUCP (Eelco van Asperen) (08/06/87)
I just read Philippe Kahn's article on Sidekick Plus in Byte (July);
has anyone on the net seen this beast running yet ?
It *looks* nice; it enables you to write TSR's without having to write
your own OS to work around DOS and gives you a lot of library routines
to display windows etc. AND we would at last have a way to make all
those TSR's work together rather than against each other, if it is
accepted a standard.
What I am interested in is how much RAM will it eat without
any applications installed (ie. the Sidekick Plus kernel only) , the
size with a small application (fe. a calculator) etc. Also, what will
it cost me (a) to get the development environment and (b) to distribute
my own applications ? Is the license as "no-nonsense" as Borland usually
has ("use it as a book", "no runtime license-fees") ?
Is it available now or are we in for the usual "Real Soon Now" ?
Have any software companies announced their conformance to this new
"standard" ?
Eelco van Asperen.
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----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------Isaac_K_Rabinovitch@cup.portal.com (08/13/87)
The most interesting thing about Kahn's Sidekick Plus article: he doesn't call the Plus kernel a "TSR kernel" he calls it an "Operating System". In other words, he's claiming to have done the OS work that Microsoft should have done in the first place.