I have thought about doing this. I have no idea what would be involved, but given how many DOS-compatible OS’s were around in the 1980’s it must be comparatively easy to build than other operating systems.
I remember playing with Caldara OpenDOS and Concurrent DOS years ago, and it always seemed like it might be fun to make my own.
CDOS was a multitasking, eventually x86-32 native, OS that could multitask DOS apps even on a 286.
Back in the 20th century the limitations on a multitasking DOS were largely around hardware compatibility: could it talk to your network card, sound card, CD drive, and let multiple DOS apps access them?
But now, DOS networking is largely irrelevant: it didn't natively talk TCP/IP and nobody cares about IPX/SPX or NetBEUI. Few have a CD-ROM any more. You probably need a driver shim to emulate a Soundblaster anyway.
However all those 10s of thousands of DOS apps are still there and still work.
For DOS there's FreeDOS, SvarDOS, PDOS, and others, including this project.
I knew y'all techies we're fancy but just, what ?!?!
>Recently I was lucky enough to take a one-month sabbatical away from work. While I spent much of that (sabbatical period) time traveling and staying away from a computer,
I had no idea it was now en vogue to take a nice one month sabbatical from your big tech FAANG job to go time traveling. It raises so many questions. First of all, why the one month period. If he has a time machine couldn't the sabbatical be forever? Second, which tech company has, it seems, secretly developed time travel and time displacement science, produced a time machine, and offered it only to employees going on sabbatical? It seems like a google kind of thing but maybe it's a move from amazon's business, long shot netflix or valve out of left field with a new entertainment tech.
In any case I for one welcome our new time traveling tech overlords and look forward to the time wars as the natural evolution to the space rocket wars
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 38.4 ms ] threadI remember playing with Caldara OpenDOS and Concurrent DOS years ago, and it always seemed like it might be fun to make my own.
This is the real deal here.
CDOS was a multitasking, eventually x86-32 native, OS that could multitask DOS apps even on a 286.
Back in the 20th century the limitations on a multitasking DOS were largely around hardware compatibility: could it talk to your network card, sound card, CD drive, and let multiple DOS apps access them?
But now, DOS networking is largely irrelevant: it didn't natively talk TCP/IP and nobody cares about IPX/SPX or NetBEUI. Few have a CD-ROM any more. You probably need a driver shim to emulate a Soundblaster anyway.
However all those 10s of thousands of DOS apps are still there and still work.
For DOS there's FreeDOS, SvarDOS, PDOS, and others, including this project.
A modern FOSS CDOS clone would be great fun.
>Recently I was lucky enough to take a one-month sabbatical away from work. While I spent much of that (sabbatical period) time traveling and staying away from a computer,
I had no idea it was now en vogue to take a nice one month sabbatical from your big tech FAANG job to go time traveling. It raises so many questions. First of all, why the one month period. If he has a time machine couldn't the sabbatical be forever? Second, which tech company has, it seems, secretly developed time travel and time displacement science, produced a time machine, and offered it only to employees going on sabbatical? It seems like a google kind of thing but maybe it's a move from amazon's business, long shot netflix or valve out of left field with a new entertainment tech.
In any case I for one welcome our new time traveling tech overlords and look forward to the time wars as the natural evolution to the space rocket wars