There's always DEBUG & QBASIC. :D Remember when magazines used to actually
post DEBUG & QBASIC scripts.
-L
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:54 PM, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:06 PM, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Ralf A. Quint <free...@gmx.net> 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.
> >
> > You'd have to port stuff to it. The easiest would be "strictly
> > conformant" ANSI C stuff (or similar), just a recompile away. If you
> > add a POSIX layer (like many do, and even PatV briefly considered for
> > future endeavors), you get that too. So you could recompile things
> > like gcc, vi, sed, awk, etc. Other older "legacy" stuff would have to
> > run under an emulator (a la AROS).
>
> > It's not as useless or impossible as it seems, but then again, I don't
> > expect this to happen (any time soon or if ever ...). "Just use Li^H^H
> > ... POSIX" (sigh).
>
> Neither useless nor impossible, but who will bother? There are simply
> too few folks with a need for it. It might happen a bit like Unix
> did, where some of the commands were programmers at Bell Labs
> scratching personal itches because *they* wanted a tool that did that
> and could create one.
>
> But while you can arguably do useful work (if you're a programmer, at
> least) on a bare bones Unix system with the standard utilities but
> *no* third party apps, DOS isn't in the same league. What can you do
> with *only* DOS and *no* apps? Not enough.
> ______
> Dennis
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