DOS ain't dead

PDOS-generic (Announce)

posted by kerravon , Ligao, Free World North, 12.11.2021, 01:50

> > > The core problem was not having a stable 32-bit application interface
> > built
> > > into dos.
> >
> > I fail to see the problem.
>
> Now or then? The question was what IMHO should have gone different with
> the course of dos.

That is correct. That is my question.

> The point that I discuss is more that 3rd party code is doing that. At an
> earlier point msdos should have expanded. (one can say it did and it became
> win9x though)

I would argue that win9x is a radically different
API unrelated to MSDOS. So if we're talking about
"yet another 32-bit OS", win9x fits the bill.

I mentioned that I had 3 offerings of "32-bit MSDOS"
already, but I have in mind a 4th.

Include functions like PosFindFirst() that directly
map on to the INT 21H call, but implement them with
calls to kernel32.dll functions.

This places a burden on the compiler, linker and OS
to support DLLs so is not as good as PDOS-generic,
in my opinion.

What's your opinion?

And one more option would be the "Family API" to be
used for 32-bit programming, and let the 16-bit one
cover all platforms (do 16-bit executables still work
on 64-bit Windows, given that "long mode" supports
PM16?).

BFN. Paul.

Complete thread:

• PDOS-generic - kerravon, 30.10.2021, 10:02 (Announce)
  • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 31.10.2021, 06:40
    • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 31.10.2021, 09:43
      • PDOS-generic - ecm, 31.10.2021, 22:11
        • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 31.10.2021, 22:29
          • PDOS-generic - ecm, 31.10.2021, 22:32
            • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 31.10.2021, 22:46
              • PDOS-generic - tom, 02.11.2021, 18:25
                • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 02.11.2021, 21:29
                  • PDOS-generic - ecm, 03.11.2021, 08:54
                    • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 03.11.2021, 19:48
      • PDOS-generic - marcov, 02.11.2021, 19:42
        • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 02.11.2021, 22:00
          • PDOS-generic - marcov, 03.11.2021, 16:43
            • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 03.11.2021, 20:06
              • PDOS-generic - marcov, 13.11.2021, 15:49
                • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 14.11.2021, 09:01
            • PDOS-generic - tom, 04.11.2021, 15:28
              • PDOS-generic - marcov, 08.11.2021, 10:21
                • PDOS-generic - tkchia, 08.11.2021, 16:24
                  • PDOS-generic - DosWorld, 08.11.2021, 17:17
                  • PDOS-generic - marcov, 13.11.2021, 16:03
                    • PDOS-generic - tkchia, 13.11.2021, 17:42
                • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 12.11.2021, 01:50
                  • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 12.11.2021, 11:10
                  • PDOS-generic - Ringding, 12.11.2021, 13:39
                    • PDOS-generic - kerravon, 13.11.2021, 02:26
                      • PDOS-generic - Ringding, 13.11.2021, 09:55
                        • PDOS-generic - Ringding, 13.11.2021, 10:51