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ARM version of MSDOS (Announce)

posted by kerravon, Ligao, Free World North, 06.11.2022, 22:48

> > For my opinion, if you don't provide that interface you may call your
> > software a DOS, but not MS-DOS.
>
> IMO, if it's not written by the programmers at MicroSoft...
> it _cannot_ by any stretch of the imagination be called MS-DOS
You could also argue that if it uses the radically
different (compared to 1.0) MSDOS 2.0 API, it isn't
"real" MSDOS either.

The fact is, Microsoft themselves changed the API
and still called their product MSDOS, even when
applications had zero chance of running under
original MSDOS.

I have done something far less than that - I've
provided very small C wrappers to many of the
MSDOS 2.0 (not 1.0) APIs.

Regardless - is there a point to this debate?
Is it just semantic? Because Microsoft abandoned
MSDOS (before IBM abandoned PCDOS by the way),
we should all freeze in time and not move
forward with MSDOS/PCDOS enhancements or
standardization efforts?

I guess that's what I'm after - a standardization
effort for (MS/PC/DR/P)DOS similar to what happened
for Unix. With a view to an eventual ARM port
(noting that Unix was ported to ARM too).

The fact that not many people are interested in
standardizing DOS, and most of them are in this
forum, does not deter me.

BFN. Paul.

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