On Sat, 14 Dec 2024, Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel wrote: > But this whole thing I've seen about people trying to turn FreeDOS > into a modern OS with a GUI, multitasking and native AMD64 > support and failing because they can barely write hello world...it's > because they've got stars in their eyes and don't really "get" DOS > the same way someone who grew up on systems with MS-DOS 3.3 > and even more primitive operating systems would. I mean, you > could see me 25 years ago on the old list being a total n00b, but I > wasn't trying to make DOS anything but DOS. (I learned C because > of FreeDOS.) > >-uso.
Thanks for the explanation. Reminds me of folks who made grand plans for programming projects and perhaps wrote some scaffolding code, but never finished anything. A whole new GUI or multitasking system built on top of DOS would be grandiose indeed. Maybe like buying a luxury sportscar and parking it on a remote dirt road in the country. Those roads weren't designed for that kind of car. I think HP's method of "booting" FreeDOS on amd64 hardware is interesting. I would like to see a tightly integrated, special purpose Linux distro for this; the minimum required to present a guest BIOS plus features to enable removable media, networking, etc. Only if someone else makes it happen. Ben _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
