DOS Compatable OS

[Gary Sparkes]

On 12/14/05 3:53 PM, "Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner" <spc at conman.org> wrote:

> It was thus said that the Great Gary Sparkes once stated:
>> 
>> I'm rather bored, so I thought I might try and hack together a small project
>> OS compatable with at least DOS 1.x or similar, is there any decent resource
>> for information on dos compatability and how to achieve it, or is it left as
>> a reverse engineering exercise for 'the reader' ? :)
> 
>   How compatable?  If you go by the published API for MS-DOS 1.x, then it
> should be pretty easy, but if by "compatable" you mean "run arbitrary MS-DOS
> programs, especially those from Microsoft" you may have your work cut out
> for you.  You may want to check out http://www.freedos.org/.
> 
>   -spc (But remember, MS-DOS 1.0 is a something of a CP/M for the 8086
> world ... )

I was thinking of going up compatability in versions, such as going from 1.x
to 2.x etc, mainly because, well, I'm very, very bored :)

And of course, it'd be IBM PC compatable stuff, not the odd machine MS-DOS
running thingies