On 7/31/2023 6:37 PM, Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel wrote:
> Trying to force decades
> old operating systems to match is probably a dead end.
Do you mean started decades ago or ended decades ago?
Both Freedos and PDOS/86 are in active development.
As far as FreeDOS goes, it's goal is to be basically MS-DOS 6.0
compatible. And its targeted hosts are (and forever will be) IBM
compatible PCs. Any step you're trying to change that will lead you down
a path where you end up no longer to be DOS compatible. You basically
will end up with a new/different operating system that will have to
compete with the likes of Linux, Windows or macOS.
Windows is in active development too, and at a particular point
in Windows 10 finally embraced ANSI X3.64, allowing the
platform independence. In fact, I remember reading something
on Microsoft's website with regard to the old methods that used
a virtual screen buffer as being obsolete and not the direction
Microsoft was taking.
I am not sure what exactly you read, but I think it doesn't mean what
you think it does. "Embracing" ANSI X3.64, an 43 year old standard (in
2023) certainly doesn't pertain to anything GUI oriented. The best that
I can think of is that this could possibly to that abomination that they
call "PowerShell", which simply is a spawn of evil, and certainly
nothing that would effect current application development. This all
sounds more like just another M$ marketing ploy. "Look, we got all new
shiny icons! Alles so schön bunt hier!"... 😛
I'm not stating that Microsoft is embracing the exact same
concept that I am (not saying they're not either), but I don't
think it is so black and white that the microemacs that I just
released as source and DOS binary is inherently useless.
Friends don't let friend use EMACS! (sorry, just had to put in this
personal note LOL )
Linus said that his Unix would never be as sophisticated as
what was it? SCO? I've forgotten. Almost no-one else has even
heard of it to even forget.
He was using Unix and to some degree, Minix, at the university. And his
intention was to create something that took advantage of the 80386 CPU
(while Minix and in fact most Unix at that time were only using a 80286)
Ralf
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