Hi, On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 10:40 AM Mark Olesen <[email protected]> wrote: > > DOS Chromebook? I do not believe FreeDOS could compete with the latest > web browser technologies. It is an interesting concept though.I > believe an attempt was made to Resurrect Amiga with a working machine > and desktop sometime ago. > > FreeDOS is fun stuff for sure. Every once in a while, I enjoy > tinkering around with it and sometimes programming in that > environment.
I didn't mean a commercial project aimed at millions of people, just a niche toy for us nerds. Obviously we wouldn't have HTML 5, but we do already have ports of Lynx and Links2, Wget, Curl, FTP, IRC, etc. And of course we have DJGPP (GCC), OpenWatcom, SmallerC, FPC, FBC, NASM, FASM, AWK, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc. Thus, it should be possible to have a dedicated machine (or at least one with emulation) that would let us develop for FreeDOS more easily. Heck, maybe we would even gain more contributors! With the online popularity of Git (SCM) these days, it seems to imply that a Chromebook or similar Linux machine with Git installed, thus with QEMU for emulating FreeDOS, would be optimal for development (and maybe DOSBox for graphics / sound / cycle-throttling). But I'm specifically thinking of a non-generic laptop here. Heck, maybe something that dual boots into FreeDOS natively. But it's just a dream, and frankly, Linux has more marketshare (despite heavy fragmentation). As grateful as I am for FSF's "Respects Your Freedom" attempts, I'm not sure how reliable those are. Maybe I need to grab one and find out. But x86 hardware seems like a dead end, yet I don't know how much success or promise can be found on others (ARM? RISC-V?) for emulating legacy x86. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
