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non-DOS (yet): an interesting project for x86-64 (Miscellaneous)

posted by ecm Homepage E-mail, Düsseldorf, Germany, 19.01.2021, 18:57

> > I think some of you may be interested in the
> > Cosmopolitan project,
> aiming
> > for a common ABI on x86-64: so
> > far, Linux, Win64, *BSD work, and there is some support for bare metal
> as
> > well; I think DOS64 might be another platform.
>
> Q: Has anyone ever even attempted to create an actual 64bit DOS kernel ?

fdpp is called a 64-bit DOS. It is based on the FreeDOS kernel and provides the normal (Real/Virtual 86 Mode) DOS environment from C++ code that is compiled into a 64-bit library. It can only be used as a plugin for a specific machine setup, currently only dosemu2.

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