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ARM version of MSDOS (Announce)

posted by kerravon, Ligao, Free World North, 05.11.2022, 17:15

> Hello kerravon,
>
> > The philosophical question is interesting.
>
> Even if it is "interesting", it is not very useful.
It's very useful in setting goals. And setting a
definition for that goal.

> If your PDOS/whatever is to have any chance of "competing" against
> Microsoft Windows — or achieving whatever other grandiose goals you have
> for it — then it probably needs to be able to run Doom. Or donkey.bas.
> Or preferably both.
I don't know what donkey.bas is, but PDOS/386 comes
with bwbasic, which is a BASIC interpreter.

> And, I mean, a lot of OSes that don't even claim to be spiritual
> successors of MS-DOS can already run Doom. Surely a self-styled "ARM
> version of MSDOS" can at least strive to do better in this department.
Honestly, I have been using Android smartphones for
about a year, and seeing an MSDOS prompt (or similar)
come up and being able to do a "dir", which only
happened a few hours ago, is fantastic already, and
the culmination of decades of effort.

BFN. Paul.

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