On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Ralf A. Quint <[email protected]> wrote: > At 05:12 PM 1/9/2013, Louis Santillan wrote: >>An interesting historical note, early versions of the FreeDOS kernel >>(DOS-C kernel) were portable to the 68k architecture. See >>(<http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Villani>http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Villani). > > Well, you noticed that in that reference, it also clearly states: > "This move to a completely different target platform, while losing > binary compatibility with existing applications,..."
Which is your fundamental problem. Even if you move DOS to a new architecture, what do you run under it on that platform? There isn't anything, and there isn't a lot you can do with DOS all by itself. > Ralf ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
