Hi, On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Ralf A. Quint <[email protected]> wrote: > At 06:20 PM 9/16/2011, Rugxulo wrote: > >>I guess it would be more crucial if there was a portable (a la POSIX) >>standard for DOS. ;-)) >>Considering all the variants out there, it's not the worst idea in the >>world (IMHO)! > > Well, that is/was MS/PC-DOS.
I meant something well-documented, not blindly abandoned and hidden under a rug. > Don't understand what else you mean/refer to as "portable". DOS is > grown up on the x86 platform, being the very OS that allowed the PC > world as it exists today to develop. Where do you want to port it to? I didn't really mean portable, just standardized. > You can't port it to any other CPU platform, as that would prevent > each and every DOS program every written not to be executable > anymore, so what's the point? You can port to anything you want, e.g. Mac w/ Rosetta. Some (but not all) software has sources too. Emulators could exist, there's no reason to kill binary compatibility. But really I was just musing about having some kind of DOS Committee. I don't really expect it to happen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
