DOS ain't dead - nuclear war

nuclear war (Miscellaneous)

posted by kerravon , Sydney, Free World South, 17.11.2022, 23:51

> Hello kerravon,
>
> > Was the purpose of a new OS design so that if it
> > did become popular, Commodore could lock people
> > in somehow?
> > It seems that Microsoft is doing something like that.
> > Instead of making sure that their code works on an
> > 80386 up, or the first x64, they deliberately look
> > for a new processor feature and make it mandatory.
> > Which forces people to buy new computers. And the
> > new computers require a new Windows license which
> > is how Microsoft then makes money.
>
> Huh? Not everything is a deliberate conspiracy to squeeze more money from
> customers. After all, you yourself created a new C-level API that is
> incompatible with everything that came before. And you should know that
> you are not engaged in a conspiracy to squeeze money.

At the moment I am not claiming that what I did
was the right thing to do. I wasn't actually
aware of what came before besides people calling
int86x and POSIX, neither of which I liked. And
I have a "bias for action" as someone described
it, so just started reproducing MSDOS in C to
see what I ended up with. I wasn't claiming to
be an OS expert either - quite the opposite.
Since then I have a new design though, different
from MSDOS. That's what PDOS-generic is. But that
came at the end of a process, not the beginning.

I'm not claiming Commodore were right or wrong
with their new API either. I'm asking that question.

BFN. Paul.

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