DOS ain't dead - nuclear war

nuclear war (Miscellaneous)

posted by kerravon, Ligao, Free World North, 16.11.2022, 17:26

> Hello kerravon,
>
> > Previously I was under the impression that there
> > was no apparent standard for small systems, but
> > currently I am saying "apparently there is - what
> > is it? Can you figure out what it is from first
> > principles? Why didn't the Amiga use it? Was it
> > because of copyright issues?".
>
> wut? "Figure out" an API for an existing system "from first principles"?
> How? And why?

To understand and find out anything I am missing.

E.g. it was only recently that I found out that
people normally develop new systems using an
emulator on an existing system, but DOS was instead
developed with the aid of a "monitor". Apparently
use of a monitor is a lost art, but I was previously
unaware that the art even existed.

And only about 24 hours ago (part of the delay here)
I realized I didn't know (and still don't know) how
it is technically possible for compilers to support
the small memory model, given that a buffer can
reside on either the stack or in the data segment.

BTW, I can't remember if I mentioned it, but there
is now a public domain 8086 assembler:

https://github.com/robertapengelly/as86

and it assembles most of my hand-written code.

So I'm getting closer and closer to not just having
a public domain OS, but also the entire toolchain
to maintain and build all the applicable source code.

Oh - I also got PDPCLIB to support memory models
other than large - specifically tiny and compact.

medium and small seem to be technically impossible
as per above, but somehow the problem was solved
even though it is nominally impossible.

BFN. Paul.

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