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

posted by glennmcc Homepage E-mail, North Jackson, Ohio (USA), 23.01.2021, 17:38

> > So, the 'short answer' to my query is... "no"
>
> Well, I have been trying
> to get something going that can boot from an x86-64 UEFI environment and,
> maybe at some point, usefully run 16-bit code.
>
> It is still nowhere near complete though, partly because to do it properly
> I will need to understand ACPI, and the ACPI specification is more than
> 1,000 pages long.
>
> (Meanwhile, as the Cosmopolitan author reminds us,
> long
> mode is long.) :-D

What I was meaning is...

Has anyone ever attempted to create an actual 64bit DOS ?

ie: compile Freedos's kernel.sys, command.com
and all other associated files as TRUE 64bit
just as the Linux kernel is now available as true 64bit.

And then of-course...
recompile any DOS programs in TRUE 64bit rather than 16bit or 32bit

My guess is... "nope". ;-)

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