DOS ain't dead

DOSes written in assembly (Developers)

posted by tom , Germany (West), 31.03.2024, 20:00
(edited by tom on 31.03.2024, 20:11)

> Somewhere in 1985 I had to choose between Turbo Pascal and C as programming
> language. I chose for TP but sometimes I regret it, seeing how many
> programs and OSes are written in C. That Linux is written in C, is
> completely understandable, but a DOS, like FreeDOS, no.

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

You probably don't either understand special or general relativity, drug design or rocket science. That doesn't make them wrong.

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

Complete thread:

• DOSes written in assembly - Ruud, 31.03.2024, 08:48 (Developers)
  • DOSes written in assembly - Rugxulo, 31.03.2024, 09:42
    • DOSes written in assembly - ecm, 31.03.2024, 10:01
  • DOSes written in assembly - Laaca, 31.03.2024, 17:09
  • DOSes written in assembly - boeckmann, 31.03.2024, 18:52
    • DOSes written in assembly - Ruud, 01.04.2024, 08:06
      • DOSes written in assembly - RayeR, 01.04.2024, 20:24
  • DOSes written in assembly - tom, 31.03.2024, 20:00
  • DOSes written in assembly - samwdpckr, 01.04.2024, 20:54
  • DOSes written in assembly - kerravon, 04.04.2024, 15:11
    • DOSes written in assembly - Ruud, 07.04.2024, 14:45
      • DOSes written in assembly - kerravon, 07.04.2024, 16:55
        • DOSes written in assembly - Rugxulo, 08.04.2024, 02:45
        • Disassembly quality - ecm, 14.04.2024, 19:33
  • DOSes written in assembly - rr, 07.04.2024, 17:24
    • DOSes written in assembly - Ruud, 07.04.2024, 21:48