Hi Liam & guys, thanks for interesting info and welcome to Prague. I just
moved there few months ago as well.

I was looking at some code repositories:
https://github.com/deadpixi/sam
https://github.com/9fans/plan9port

The problem is that the Linux/Mac/PPC port relies on X11 GUI support. For
Win32, the MingW compiler is also different and will have some sort of GUI
layer. If it would be that simple and I could compile stuff like this in
FreeDOS, that would be great. But it is not possible.

The only light at the end of the tunnel right now is something like HX DOS,
which allows you to run SIMPLE Win32 apps in DOS. Give it a try:
https://www.japheth.de/HX.html

More realistic solution would be to crowdfund some developer to write a DOS
port in something like https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOjS (but I'm not sure
about performance on 486 and lower, running Pentium 1 would be more safe).

Try to run it in FreeDOS again using HX GUI / HX RT.

Lukas

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 3:07 PM Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 at 05:42, Mart Zirnask <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > However, I am a fan of the Sam text editor, originally developed for
> > the Plan 9 OS.
>
> SAM, Acme and the Plan 9 Rio environment were inspired by Niklaus
> Wirth's Oberon environment.
>
> The UI is quite similar to the Oberon UI.
>
> Quick intro:
> http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/
>
> Wikipedia article:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)
>
> Some of the history:
> https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Articles/LeanSoftware.pdf
>
> Academic assessment:
>
> http://people.cis.ksu.edu//~danielwang/Investigation/System_Security/download.pdf
> (Warning, non HTTPS link, but it's real, valid and safe.)
>
> Thus, you might find it interesting and instructive to check out Oberon.
>
> Modern versions run on top of Windows, macOS and Linux, but it also
> used to run on top of DOS if that's what you want.
>
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/dosoberon/files/DOS%20Oberon%20System%203%20Version%202.0/
>
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