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ARM version of MSDOS (Announce)

posted by kerravon, Ligao, Free World North, 05.11.2022, 15:16

> > Well, PDOS-generic, anyway.
> >
> > Commands date/time, copy, dir, type, exit are working.
> >
> > Works on ARM Chromebook, Android smartphone and Android netbook.
> >
> > https://github.com/jeanmarclienher/Pdos-PdAndro/releases/tag/rel0.7.0
>
> Hi Paul. An ARM version of MS-DOS is no MS-DOS. I may look and behave
> similar to MS-DOS, but it cannot run real (x86) DOS software. So it's not
> "MSDOS".
It runs "real" DOS software at the source code
level if the Pos interface is used.

Some people were looking forward to a 32-bit
version of MSDOS.

If Microsoft had produced a 32-bit version of
MSDOS that ran in PM32 and required people to
recompile using a 32-bit compiler, and didn't
run 16-bit software, would you have said

"Microsoft's 32-bit MSDOS may look and behave
similar to MSDOS, but it cannot run real (8086)
DOS software, so it's not MSDOS"?

And if Microsoft had produced a version of
MSDOS for the Atari (68000), would you have said
that that wasn't "real" either?

Would you have said that CP/M-86 (a real thing)
is not "real CP/M" because it doesn't run CP/M
8080 binaries?

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