Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/10/04:49:57
On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Roger Ivie wrote:
> Mark Harris wrote:
> >On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, Roger Ivie wrote:
> >> COMMAND.COM doesn't actually do BIOS output. It does DOS output. That is, it
> >> writes to a file handle open on the console and reads from a file handle
> >> also open on the console. This does two things:
> >>
> >> 1) Makes it possible to run on weird machines like the DEC Rainbow which
> >> don't have a PC-compatible ROM BIOS.
> >
> >DOS is a PC operating system. Non-compatibles are just that: not
> >compatible. Should we make DOS so that it can run on the VIC-20
> >as well? It is not PC-compatible either.
>
> The VIC-20 is not an x86 machine. MS-DOS was, and IMHO should still be,
> generic to x86 machines. A specific OEM (such as IBM) can customize to their
> particular hardware (giving rise to PC-DOS), but the OS itself should be
> as generic as possible.
Ok, give me your address. In compensation for us making OpenDOS
386 specific, when I upgrade my 486 to a pentium in a few months,
I'll be trickling the parts down across my other systems. Since
I only need 3, and will have 4 systems, I'll send you my Tandy
TL/2 1000. You just pay for postage. I'll throw in a C64 too.
BTW, if you've got the source code for an OS, I'd say that it can
be as generic as you'd like. (Conditional compilation, + the
ability to make it do whatever makes you smile.)
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