Hi,
I appreciate the amount of work you have put on building this list/disk,
however, I must point out I see many inconsistencies in the methodology
you apply to perform your rankings, and the lack of information about
the metric used for such purposes. Let me explain with a few simple examples:
Not all kernels have the same feature set: MS-DOS 6.22 does not
support FAT32 while many others in your list do. More features, usually
means more code which results in an increment on footprint.
Other kernels include built-in commands and drivers than most not.
Another example is latest DR-DOS kernel that when paired with its memory
manager, can provide multitasking.
Then you force all kernels to use a single command interpreter, this becomes
suboptimal for many of them, as some pass specific information to
their own shell. For example, multi-config information and single line
execution on latest DR-DOS variants. So if you plug in another Shell you
may alter those features.
Perhaps, it is worth redoing the list/work in two stages, one where you
just place the kernel together with the original shell intended for it,
and another where you add their intended memory managers.
Anyway, thanks to your list, I have learned about the existence of WMAT-DOS.
What about all other less well known DOS commercial variants?
DOS98
NAI-DOS
X-DOS 5.2
JK-DOS 3.3e
Embedded DOS 6XL
Embedded DOS-ROM 4.04
It would also be interesting to detail the memory managers addressing
limits, as some despite their specs go a bit lower and others higher. The
only two 64 bit memory managers I know of are missing too.
