Yes, that's exactly what I meant in my emails. Microsoft would've
eventually (in my educated guesses, at least) made MS-DOS enter protected
mode as early as possible (as any modern OS does) then spawned multiple
apps in their own memory areas using VM86. This would basically make the
kernel the V86 monitor program which managed hardware and such for the VM86
applications. It would've been super fast with protected memory and
preemptive multitasking thrown in almost for free, as a gift from the x86
processor. And, since the traditional applications would be running on real
hardware and not in some kind of emulator, we would still be staying true
to the classic DOS platform while being suddenly able to run all kinds of
binaries - e.g. MZ, NZ, LE and LX programs.
Such a DOS would be quite an experience to run! :)
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Travis Siegel <tsie...@softcon.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 1, 2015, at 3:46 AM, Mercury Thirteen wrote:
>
> > I too would love to see a fully modern DOS.
>
> As would I, and I believe everything mentioned in the email would be
> perfect for a 32-bit dos. I believe it can be done, and the whole give
> each program it's own virtual 86 machine is one I've wondered about for
> quite sometime. It shouldn't be difficult, and actually, I read somewhere
> that the initial version of windows did this, but of course, I can't
> confirm that, since the only version of windows 1.0 I ever had was on an xt
> where such a scheme wouldn't have worked anyhow, not to mention, I haven't
> a clue where that machine wound up at. :)
> Otherwise, each program being spawned in it's own virtual 86 machine, and
> leaving things in protected mode as much as possible makes perfect sense to
> me, and it was what I'd figured would happen to dos eventually, but it
> never did.
>
>
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