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EDR-DOS version number (Announce)

posted by Ro2003, 10.10.2023, 16:32

Regarding version number - to avoid past confusion cases - would be nice if:

- 6.5, 7.5, 8.5, etc. are reserved for use in emulators - by analogy with NTVDM
- 7.01.08 WIP is kept as "work in progress" and version is not increased to 7.01.09. That's the case with this update here, which is good!
- 7.08 and 7.09 are reserved for IBMBIO/IBMDOS/COMMAND combination that provides all functionality of EDR-DOS 7.01.08 and DR-DOS 7.07
- 7.1 is reserved for IBMBIO/IBMDOS/COMMAND combination that provides all functionality of MS-DOS 7.1, PC DOS 7.1, DR-DOS 7.07, EDR-DOS 7.01.08
- 8.2 is reserved for IBMBIO/IBMDOS/COMMAND combination that provides all functionality of MS-DOS 8.0, PC DOS 7.1, DR-DOS 7.07, EDR-DOS 7.01.08, DR-DOS 8.0, DR-DOS 8.1, RxDOS 7.2x
- 8.3 and up are reserved for UEFI versions or at least used with restrain
- 9.x gets reserved for future substantial change.
- incremental changes to get increase only in the x.xx.rr revision rather than the minor/major version number, e.g. use the 7.01.08 WIP until it gets merged with 7.07, then 7.09.rr until all 7.1 functionality is included, then 7.1x.rr until all 8.1 functionality is included, etc.

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