DOS ain't dead

seven programming languages on one floppy (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 14.04.2023, 02:30

> BTW, do you care if the processor is not x86?
>
> Because I now have an interest in this:
>
> https://cod5.com/citizen-computer.html
>
> Putting pdos-generic on the only PD processor (which implements MIPS).
>
> I'm still trying to come to grips with the concept.
>
> I am familiar with the PC BIOS, and I am familiar with mainframes which
> have intelligent devices such that there is no BIOS.
>
> I don't know what this is.
>
> PDOS-generic assumes the presence of a pseudo-BIOS. I don't know what that
> would look like (specifically lines of code) on that proposed machine.

The Forth people are best at bootstrapping from scratch, see this:

http://mynor.org/my4th.htm

Complete thread:

• seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 19.03.2023, 03:16
  • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 21.03.2023, 05:39
    • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 25.03.2023, 04:12
      • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 25.03.2023, 05:34
        • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 27.03.2023, 09:25
          • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 28.03.2023, 04:00
            • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 28.03.2023, 12:29
              • seven programming languages on one floppy - DosWorld, 03.04.2023, 12:03
            • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 02.04.2023, 08:08
              • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 03.04.2023, 03:04
                • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 03.04.2023, 10:33
                  • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 03.04.2023, 10:55
                    • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 14.04.2023, 02:30
                      • seven programming languages on one floppy - DosWorld, 15.04.2023, 23:42
                      • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 26.05.2023, 02:17
                        • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 26.05.2023, 11:07
                        • seven programming languages on one floppy - DosWorld, 26.05.2023, 23:23
                          • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 31.05.2023, 17:36
                            • seven programming languages on one floppy - DosWorld, 02.06.2023, 23:07
                              • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 15.06.2023, 04:16
                    • seven programming languages on one floppy - DosWorld, 16.04.2023, 00:32
                      • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 16.04.2023, 01:32
                        • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 14.01.2024, 10:00
                • seven programming languages on one floppy - marcov, 04.04.2023, 10:49
            • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 10.04.2023, 06:57
        • seven programming languages on one floppy - jhall, 27.03.2023, 17:56
          • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 28.03.2023, 04:04