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

posted by glennmcc Homepage E-mail, North Jackson, Ohio (USA), 24.01.2021, 05:17

> Hello glennmcc,
>
> > Nope... I mean an ACTUAL 32bit DOS kernel
> > Don't know if this one is still under development or not but it was one
> of
> > the attempts I had heard of a long time ago.
> > https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=12396
>
> I fail to see how this should be considered as a variant of "MS-DOS", and
> not as a separate operating system of its own (which is perfectly fine in
> itself).
>
> It is like someone wrote a new OS which superficially looks and feels like
> Linux, but which does not even try to be able to run existing Linux
> programs.
>
> Speaking of Linux, Linus himself wrote an entire
> MSc
> thesis about the whole idea of OS portability.
>
> Thank you!

_I_ never made any mention of that crap OS
which _you_ have now introduced into the thread. ;-)

Also never said anything about a 32bit nor 64bit DOS which could
run existing 16bit or 32bit DOS programs. ;-)

When Linus built 32bit Linux... were there any existing 32bit Linux programs ?

When he advanced it to 64bit... were there any existing 64bit Linux programs ?

Be all of that as it may... the only thing I originally asked was...

Q: Has anyone ever even attempted to create an actual 64bit DOS kernel ?

And of-course the answer is... "No".
(or at-least not that we know of) ;-)

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