Hi there,

On Sat, 19 Oct 2024, Liam Proven via Freedos-user wrote:

... DOS is deeply tied to the x86-16 CPU model, with some x86-32
extensions. It is not meaningfully possible to create anything
usefully like DOS for an Arm chip.

What would be the point?  DOS introduced the idea of packaged software
to the world, and, without that packaged software, DOS is more or less
useless.  Even if one day some version of DOS does run directly on ARM,
none of the packaged software ever will.

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73,
Ged.


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