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EDR-DOS version number (Announce)

posted by ecm Homepage E-mail, Düsseldorf, Germany, 12.10.2023, 19:08

> 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!
If I will do more work on EDR-DOS I am considering a 7.01.09 or beyond. But that remains to be seen.

> - 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.
Don't have much of a comment on any of this.

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