| 2,9 → 2,13 |
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| === SVARCOM vs FREECOM === |
| |
| |
| SvarCOM is a DOS command interpreter (shell), similar to COMMAND.COM in MS-DOS |
| and FreeCOM in FreeDOS. But why not using FreeCOM in the first place? |
| |
| The FreeCOM project is an impressive piece of software, but there are a few |
| things that I do not like about it. SvarCOM is my attempt at addressing these |
| things. |
| things through a completely new implementation. SvarCOM is composed of |
| entirely original code and does not borrow any code from MS-DOS or FreeCOM. |
| |
| |
| === MEMORY FOOTPRINT ========================================================= |
| 15,7 → 19,7 |
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| with many limitations. As pointed out by one of the FreeCOM authors, FreeCOM |
| is designed with 21'st century machines in mind and not IBM PC compatibles. |
| |
| SvarDOS does not rely on XMS and performs runtime swapping that works on any |
| SvarCOM does not rely on XMS and performs runtime swapping that works on any |
| IBM PC compatible machine. |
| |
| |
| 29,8 → 33,8 |
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| changes made to the LANG environment variable). It also makes the translation |
| more difficult. |
| |
| SvarDOS uses CATS-style translations in a precompiled form and loads the |
| strings that match the LANG variable. |
| SvarCOM uses CATS-style translations in a precompiled form and supports |
| dynamic language changes through the %LANG% environment variable. |
| |
| |
| === CODE COMPLEXITY ========================================================== |
| 40,7 → 44,7 |
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| changes require careful testing on all supported compilers and all possible |
| build variants. |
| |
| SvarDOS, on the other hand, is meant to be simple and universal. It is |
| SvarCOM, on the other hand, is meant to be simple and universal. It is |
| compiled with OpenWatcom only, which makes a ton of IFDEF's go away. It also |
| does not integrate extra features that can be reasonably implemented through |
| external tools (typically: DOSKEY). It strives to reimplement the baseline |
| 53,7 → 57,7 |
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| freedom of its users due to its virality (GPL). |
| |
| SvarCOM is released under the terms of a liberal and permissive (MIT) license |
| that does not impose limitations on how users may or may not use it. |
| that does not impose limitations on how users may or may not use the software. |
| |
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| ====================================================================== EOF === |