Yeah, I know. It's daft. You got FreeDOS, RxDOS, PDOS, PC-MOS, and[]
there's probably other clones of MS-DOS out there. And I haven't even started doing anything *kernel*-wise.
But over the past not quite year, I've been pushing myself to try to
rewrite all the DOS utilities I can, keeping in mind that I'm not very well-versed in low-level coding, and to make them as small as possible without removing any key documented functionality as far as MS-DOS 5 or 6.
I *am* having difficulties because I know I'm a terrible programmer. Sometimes I'll spend days wracking my brain over something, and never
quite figure it out.
Very bold. Have fun!
I'm keen on small 8086 asm, in general, but I've not attempted to
replace any DOS commands. I'd be happy to just see if I could help
FreeDOS to slim down some of their commands, but I see you want to use a different licence.
Yeah, I know. It's daft.
On 2022-07-09, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:
Yeah, I know. It's daft.
So long as you are having fun, keep it up! :-)
I like seeing cross-polination between these kinds of efforts.
That is an interesting observation about FreeDOS being bloaty. I'll
have to tinker with it in PCem some day and see how it does on
emulated 16-bit hardware.
-Ben
Yeah, I know. It's daft. You got FreeDOS, RxDOS, PDOS, PC-MOS, and
there's probably other clones of MS-DOS out there. And I haven't even started doing anything *kernel*-wise.
But over the past not quite year, I've been pushing myself to try to
rewrite all the DOS utilities I can, keeping in mind that I'm not very well-versed in low-level coding, and to make them as small as possible without removing any key documented functionality as far as MS-DOS 5 or 6.
My goals are different from FreeDOS, in that I'm looking for size
rather than functionality, and have a more 8088/80286-specific focus.
(The phrase "use, share and improve in any combination" specifically
refers to the PINE/MANA fiasco, which is the reason I picked the license
I did instead of the regular BSD license.)
On 7/30/2022 11:58 AM, Steve Nickolas wrote:
(The phrase "use, share and improve in any combination" specifically refers >> to the PINE/MANA fiasco, which is the reason I picked the license I did
instead of the regular BSD license.)
What is that fiasco you refer to? I was unable to quickly discover it
with a search engine. [Which is probably more a comment on the
increasing uselessness of modern search engines, than anything else.]
Overall, a cool project. I'm only now catching up with c.o.m.p, after
a long absence.
On Fri, 3 Mar 2023, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
On 7/30/2022 11:58 AM, Steve Nickolas wrote:
(The phrase "use, share and improve in any combination" specifically
refers to the PINE/MANA fiasco, which is the reason I picked the
license I did instead of the regular BSD license.)
What is that fiasco you refer to? I was unable to quickly discover it
with a search engine. [Which is probably more a comment on the
increasing uselessness of modern search engines, than anything else.]
Overall, a cool project. I'm only now catching up with c.o.m.p, after
a long absence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_%28email_client%29#Licensing_and_clones
-uso.
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