On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Ralf A. Quint wrote: > At 06:20 PM 9/16/2011, Rugxulo wrote: > >> "DOS" to most people means "MS-DOS", which is indeed long dead. > > So is any other DOS. In a technical sense at least. DR-DOS is dead, > PC-DOS is dead, PT-DOS is apparently dead as well... > And FreeDOS original goal was to create a MS-DOS 6 clone, which would > be freely distributable after the demise of those commercial versions...
DOS to me has always meant MS-DOS or PC DOS. I can deal with the clones inasfar as they act like MS-DOS, and in general FreeDOS has been better at this on the user level, while DR DOS has been better under the hood. >> I guess it would be more crucial if there was a portable (a la POSIX) >> standard for DOS. ;-)) >> Considering all the variants out there, it's not the worst idea in the >> world (IMHO)! > > Well, that is/was MS/PC-DOS. QFT. > Don't understand what else you mean/refer to as "portable". DOS is > grown up on the x86 platform, being the very OS that allowed the PC > world as it exists today to develop. Where do you want to port it to? Well, there's a kindasorta DR DOS kernel port over on the 68K, but that's deader than x86 considering x86 is still very much alive and well >:P Besides, it only mimics DOS 2.11. -uso. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
