On 12/31/2014 4:22 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > It's not my kickstarter project, but I'll watch and see what happens. > I agree that FreeDOS-32 is a tough prospect. As you can guess from my > other post, I'm very concerned that they can maintain any application > compatibility while adding modern hardware support. If they can't keep > compatibility, it's a dead end. But if they can, it's worth looking at. Given that I am working/playing/programming with DOS since December 1981, I simply don't see how they can possibly achieve this, unless they produce their own reincarnation of something Linux-like and then provide a VM to run 16bit DOS. And in that case, you can use a VM on Linux to begin with. Or on Windows or OS/X, or any other OS that supports a VM... > > Even NovOS (also another post) was a tough sell to Novell, because it > hoped to provide backwards compatibility while offering a whole new > API to do "new" stuff. It sounds great until you try to do it. > Well, 1991 would have been at a time well before Linux had gone "mainstream" and you could argue that the folks at Novell had already seen "the writing on the wall"...
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