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I feel like the article is just too short for the given topic. So much more detail could have been added.
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.

> Concurrent DOS

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.

A disk-operating system is a system for operating disks, and doesn't concern itself too much with other hardware - that came later.
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