Excerptfrom dmccunney: > > MS isn't the only vendor of a DOS-compatible OS. DR-DOS and ROM-DOS > > are still sold online. (Do OS/2 variants also count? Maybe.) > Which OS/2 variants? The one I'm aware of is eComStation, > https://www.ecomstation.com/. The outfit that makes it got the rights > from IBM, and essentially services accounts that still have > substantial OS/2 deployments, and it's cheaper and easier to try to > continue to use OS/2 than migrate to a different architecture. > (Stardock, who does stuff like the Window Blinds and Object Desktop > enhancements for Windows, developed under OS/s, and tried to get the > rights from Microsoft but were unsuccessful. Not sure what they might > have done if they were able to get the rights, but support for 32 bit > apps would have been a major improvement for the OS. Not supporting > 32 bit Windows apps effectively killed it.)
There is a new commercial OS/2 variant now, ArcaOS from arcanoae.com . 32-bit, no 64-bit, no GPT, no refund it it doesn't work. Website says they use network drivers from FreeBSD, bit in that case, surely one is better off using FreeBSD rather than ArcaOS. OS/2 successors/descendants have fallen far behind. There is also an osFree at osfree.org or github.com/osfree-project/osfree/ . Progress is glacially slow, maybe they'll have something (relevant? probably not) by year 4000. Peripherally on-topic for this list since it relates to descendants of DOS, but we don't want to clutter this list by pursuing this side-topic too deeply. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
