Re: [Freedos-devel] 32-bit DOS

On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Thomas Mueller wrote: Snippet from Eric Auer: OS/2 was a very sensible evolution of the MS DOS API spirit. So that could be part of the answer. And there are probably free open OS/2 clones :-) There is a free open OS/2 clone-attempt at osfree.org . They even now have a

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32-bit DOS

Snippet from Eric Auer: > OS/2 was a very sensible evolution of the MS DOS > API spirit. So that could be part of the answer. > And there are probably free open OS/2 clones :-) There is a free open OS/2 clone-attempt at osfree.org . They even now have a github site: https://github.com/ErisBlast

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32-bit DOS

On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Eric Auer wrote: OS/2 was a very sensible evolution of the MS DOS API spirit. So that could be part of the answer. And there are probably free open OS/2 clones :-) If only, but maybe the recently-started "2ine" project would be useful to such a thing. -uso. ---

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32-bit DOS

Hi Paul, > Hi. About 30 years ago, someone made a comment > on a group saying "until DOS is made 32-bit, DOS > extenders are just a kludge". Actually fd32 tries to be better than DOS + extender by having a protected mode kernel, but it has been a while since there was news from them and benefi

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32-bit DOS

> Can PDOS run programs that are run with > CWSDPMI (for example DJGPP)? Hi Ercan. PDOS uses a relocatable a.out format for the executables. I used a.out format because that is what EMX 0.9d uses internally. But PDOS will not even run a DOS-extended EMX executable. It is only capable of running a

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32-bit DOS

On July 8, 2018 1:42 PM, Ercan Ersoy wrote: > Hello, > > Can PDOS run programs that are run with CWSDPMI (for exmaple DJGPP)? > > Can NightDOS run programs that are run with CWSDPMI (for exmaple DJGPP)? > > Best regards, > > Ercan Hi Ercan, The Night kernel will eventually have its own DP

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32-bit DOS

Hello, Can PDOS run programs that are run with CWSDPMI (for exmaple DJGPP)? Can NightDOS run programs that are run with CWSDPMI (for exmaple DJGPP)? Best regards, Ercan -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32-bit DOS

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 8:51 PM, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > Interesting you should mention this; I and a few others have been working > on a 32-bit Protected Mode DOS-style kernel (see the Night group forum > here

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32-bit DOS

> Interesting you should mention this; I and a few others have been working on > a > 32-bit Protected Mode DOS-style kernel (see the Night group forum > [here](https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/night-dos-kernel) for > more > info) for a while now. While I never got too deep into DP

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32-bit DOS

Interesting you should mention this; I and a few others have been working on a 32-bit Protected Mode DOS-style kernel (see the Night group forum [here](https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/night-dos-kernel) for more info) for a while now. While I never got too deep into DPMI (and theref

[Freedos-devel] 32-bit DOS

Hi. About 30 years ago, someone made a comment on a group saying "until DOS is made 32-bit, DOS extenders are just a kludge". I didn't know much about DOS-specifics back then to even understand the comment. Microsoft abandoned the MSDOS API, but what would a 32-bit version of the MSDOS API look