DOS ain't dead

stable release ready BUT... (Announce)

posted by ecm  , Düsseldorf, Germany, 02.12.2009, 18:34

> Of course their source is derived from Microsoft's and partly kept in
> sync. However quickly peeking at the DOS DATA segment while I was trying
> to run my hack showed significant differences in the layout. Is PC-DOS 7
> supposed to be able to run Windows 9x anyway ? I have not researched
> whether it maintains a table of loaded TSRs nor whether the MS bug is
> present. You might be able to help in this respect.

PC-DOS doesn't support Windows 4.x (or Windows doesn't support PC-DOS?). AFAIK even the PC-DOS 6 distribution was different from MS-DOS, so maybe they didn't sync version 7 either.

> For instance I hacked MS DEBUG way back (DOS 3.21 times) to be able to
> launch it as a driver.

Is that, like, a necessity for DOS programmers? I did that (independantly!) a year after learning to program. I thought no one else would ever have such a great idea. Silly me!

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Complete thread:

• HK31.SYS *beta* announce & discussion thread - Ninho, 26.11.2009, 17:04 (Announce)
  • HK31.SYS *beta* announce & discussion thread - Ninho, 28.11.2009, 22:07
    • HK31.SYS *new version* beta 0.9 - Ninho, 29.11.2009, 16:58
      • HK31.SYS *new version* beta 0.9 - ecm, 29.11.2009, 17:15
        • HK31.SYS *new version* beta 0.9 - Ninho, 29.11.2009, 17:25
  • stable release ready BUT... - Ninho, 01.12.2009, 17:50
    • stable release ready BUT... - ecm, 01.12.2009, 19:46
      • stable release ready BUT... - Ninho, 01.12.2009, 20:00
        • stable release ready BUT... - ecm, 01.12.2009, 22:56
    • stable release ready BUT... - Japheth, 01.12.2009, 21:03
      • stable release ready BUT... - Ninho, 01.12.2009, 22:38
        • stable release ready BUT... - Rugxulo, 01.12.2009, 23:17
          • stable release ready BUT... - Ninho, 02.12.2009, 00:00
            • stable release ready BUT... - Rugxulo, 02.12.2009, 00:16
              • stable release ready BUT... - Ninho, 02.12.2009, 17:51
            • stable release ready BUT... - ecm, 02.12.2009, 18:25
    • stable release ready BUT... - Doug, 02.12.2009, 01:15
      • stable release ready BUT... - Ninho, 02.12.2009, 09:23
        • stable release ready BUT... - ecm, 02.12.2009, 18:34
          • stable release ready BUT... - Ninho, 02.12.2009, 19:24
            • stable release ready BUT... - Doug, 02.12.2009, 22:08
              • stable release ready BUT... - Rugxulo, 03.12.2009, 01:12
              • stable release ready BUT... - Ninho, 03.12.2009, 12:53
                • stable release ready BUT... - ecm, 03.12.2009, 14:20
                  • stable release ready BUT... - Ninho, 03.12.2009, 16:39
                    • stable release ready BUT... - ecm, 03.12.2009, 18:04
  • "HACKWRAP.SYS" out of beta (so I hope...) - Ninho, 03.12.2009, 20:25