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32-bit MSDOS (Announce)

posted by kerravon E-mail, Ligao, Free World North, 30.06.2021, 23:08

> > My vision of what MSDOS should have become in the late 1980s is here:
> >
> > http://pdos.org
> >
> > Specifically in addition to IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM should
> have
> > been added KERNEL32.DLL and MSVCRT.DLL.
>
> Reading the site and the thread, I only see one application, a BBS.
The BBS is running on PDOS/3X0 (mainframe)
not PDOS/386. There is a terminal program
running on PDOS/386 though. It directly
does INT 14H BIOS calls at the moment, so
something that should be moved to the OS.

> (besides some ported toolchains)
That's a whole class of executables. They're
not "ported", they are native Win32 executables.

> What do you envision as the audience for your OS, and because it seems
> porting requires work, what are the major attractions above other systems
> that would make that effort worthwhile?
My main audience is companies who would like to
write a commercial Windows clone to compete with
Microsoft's monopoly. They have a (somewhat)
working system to use as a base instead of having
to start from scratch. Companies that won't touch
something unless it is public domain so that they
can close-source it and/or not be bound by any
other conditions that they consider to be
unacceptable.

The audience for PDOS/3X0 is for companies to
compete with IBM's monopoly on mainframes.

In the absence of companies willing to use PDOS
as a base, or even know that it exists, I just
plug away at it myself. 27 years and counting.
Hopefully my estate will be used to continue
plugging away after I'm dead.

BTW, Microsoft has just abandoned 32-bit CPUs
with Windows 11, which means the entire 8086
market (which PDOS/86 competes in) and the
entire 80386 market (which PDOS/386 competes
in), has been left without supported Microsoft
competition.

Someone once told me "you take the best, I'll
take the rest".

BFN. Paul.

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