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

posted by glennmcc Homepage E-mail, North Jackson, Ohio (USA), 20.01.2021, 07:16

> > > 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.

So, the 'short answer' to my query is... "no"

;-)

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