> MS DOS 6.x was not the end of MS-DOS. Windows 9x releases added a > strange protected mode, but unlike NT, these versions of Windows still ran on > top of MS-DOS.
> There is no support for DOS based Windows any longer and the > ReactOS project essentially abandoned it. However, there are > embedded systems that depend on Windows 9x. we are all aware that you have some hardware running, bought 25 years ago. > It would be great if > Windows 9x era software could be supported by something open and > more stable. why not use the same software for 25 more years? no one else is interested in your special hardware/software. > Why not replace the graphical system with FLTK and the > WIN32API with a special library or something similar? because "a special library or something similar" is a huge undertaking. > Where Windows 9x comes to mind is on systems that use specialty ISA > hardware which never got ported to NT. One system in particular used > two servers, Windows 9x on one and MS DOS 6.22 on the other. Given > time, I would love to substitute Freedos and see what happens. PPM > bought out the Tyco system, but the new system is designed around > different hardware with different problems and isn't necessarily > better. I don't buy the notion that NT is better than DOS based Windows. > A port of Q-Soft to a combination of FLTK and Freedos is very > interesting to me. Theoretically, one can reverse engineer to drive > the shared memory card in Freedos. you could start by https://www.patreon.com/freedos and see if Jim is able to help. > Q-Soft is a Windows 32 program, but that could be abstracted out > and a different system could be developed that runs in protected mode on top > of Freedos. sure. even more https://www.patreon.com/freedos and see if Jim is able to help. > I think Q-Soft has a vxd internal to it, which is crazy IMHO. There > should be a driver in device manager for the ISA shared memory card. > The idea of a graphical hardware tree is something that would be > nice to have in an open source gui that runs on top of Freedos. wow. we are all impressed by your creativity and ingenuity. /s > Even an unofficial service pack for 98se that lets you use more > memory and modern hardware would be welcome. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
