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ARM version of MSDOS (Announce)

posted by kerravon, Ligao, Free World North, 15.01.2024, 23:54

> > And I ordered a Pinebook Pro so that I could have an
> > actual laptop.
> >
> > I sorted out some issues and have now released UCARM
> > at http://pdos.org
> >
> > This is a "University Challenge" distribution, but unlike
> > the others, includes copyrighted tools (gcc and binutils),
> > as I don't have public domain versions of them.
> >
> > I'm not aware of any other (ie non-x86) commercially available
> > laptop other than the Pinebook Pro.
>
> My brother has an ARM Chromebook, but I forget the specs.
I have an old ARM Chromebook too, but only 16 GiB
hard disk. I'm looking for a source of new computers.

> Not sure if that one uses Secure Boot (and presumably you aren't interested
> in modern Mac laptops which also use ARM64). Windows ARM64 and Snapdragon
> are still sold, but newer Lenovo Yogas seem to only use x64.
Actually - thanks for that idea!

My situation has changed, so I may well be able to
use a Mac laptop.

In fact, that's exactly the situation I was in in
the 1980s. I thought the Amiga was technically
superior to the PC, and that if only PC programmers
wrote their code in standard C, we could switch
over to the Amiga.

Now it is Windows software that can be written in
C90 and recompiled for the Mac as a PDOS-generic
app, running in what looks like an MSDOS prompt.

Sounds like my new calling in life.

BFN. Paul.

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