Hi (again), hope my ramblings aren't too useless, :-)
On May 2, 2012 2:31 PM, "Georg Potthast" <mail...@georgpotthast.de> wrote:
>
> I agree with Eric. Some additional points:
>
> You could write a 64bit DOS extender but you would also have to change
e.g.
> Watcom C or DJGPP to work with a 64bit DOS extender or you cannot write
> application programs in C or C++ using 64bit. Also while in 64bit mode you
> have no 16bit support so the extender would have to e.g. switch between
> modes all the time.
I dunno, make everything use VESA? But you can't use BIOS (right?) from
long mode, so you'd have to save everything to RAM disk and sync with real
hard drive somehow upon shutdown. (Or is that a wrong idea? Dunno. And I
doubt we want to write all new drivers for mouse, HD, modem, etc).
> I ported a subset of Xlib called nano-X to DOS. Based on that I ported
FLTK.
> This would allow to add a GUI looking like e.g. Windows XP to FreeDOS with
> limited effort. It would still be a single-tasking system though. But you
> could easily make the desktop and applications based on this run on a
Linux
> kernel too.
We need more "developers developers developers" (to paraphrase some dude).
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