DOS ain't dead

PDOS-generic (Announce)

posted by kerravon , Ligao, Free World North, 14.11.2021, 09:01

> > Regardless, no, I was talking about ISO/IEC 9899:1990
> > aka C90.
>
> Never saw anything special about it. Probably nice for *nixers who had to
> specify their applications in C source at that time, but for the rest
> fairly irrelevant.

It provided a universal language for computers.

> Like most languages standards, too deliberately terse on the library front
> IMHO.

I've been using it for the 30+ years it has existed,
and I can't see anything wrong with it.

> > The wrapper I showed you did an INT 21H. I don't
> > know what alternative you could possibly be
> > suggesting.
>
> The point that is if the wrapper had been 32-bit callable and in the OS,
> then as time progressed successors and emulators could have hooked it.

I don't know what "hooking" you are talking about,
and what relevance emulators are, but the wrapper
I provided is 32-bit callable, and in both PDOS/386
and PDOS-generic.

Microsoft has abandoned MSDOS, so some other stream
needs to take its place, e.g. Freedos.

Do you have a specific proposal that could be added
to Freedos so that a suitable wrapper is both 32-bit
callable and in the OS as you requested?

Or alternatively, that is still thunked, in Freedos,
in 2021, but on PDOS/386 or PDOS-generic, is run
entirely as 32-bit, which is useful once you have
migrated (by 2021) all of your 16-bit apps to 32-bit.

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