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DOSes written in assembly (Developers)

posted by Ruud Homepage, Heerlen - NL, 01.04.2024, 08:06

Thank you all for answering!


> > My question: are there other open source DOSes around, meant for
> > 8088/8086 computers and purely written in assembly?

I forgot to mention: the reason I asked was pure curiosity.


@Boeckmann
> There was also the russian PTS-DOS, which gained some popularity in
> Germany. I have read that it was shipped with (assembly) source, but I
> never possessed it. So take it with a grain of salt.

No, it DID exist. In fact I have the CD. And I bought it in a bookshop near the fountain in Aachen. I made an ISO of it and can upload it to my website. If you, or anyone else, is interested, email me and I will send the link. You find my email addres at http://www.baltissen.org/newhtm/email.htm


@Tom
> I understand that you don't understand FreeDOS being written in C, but that
> doesn't make this a bad idea.

I never said it is a bad idea or wrong. My personal opinion is that a MS-DOS clone should be written in assembly, that's all. And I do understand C, I just don't like it.


> Edited to add: Congratulations to create your own operating system,
> compatible to nothing else, running on about a single machine. What's the
> point?

Fun :)

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With Kind regards, Ruud Baltissen

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