Why make anything then? Lol. It doesn't matter how trivial if it's fun the chances are someone else is keen to do it.
Bear in mind that an x86 watch would be more funny than practical. Psu on your back with a bunch of cables running up your arm lol. Cyberpunk 1996 kinda look to it. On Tue, 2 July 2024, 10:08 pm Liam Proven via Freedos-devel, < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 at 03:22, Richard Stoltenberg via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > use Freedos for a wrist watch os. The samsung watch hardware has alot > of power. > > Pointless. DOS is an x86 OS. There are no x86 smartwatches. You'd need > to run it in an emulator which would squander the very limited battery > life. No point. > > > BigDOS: windows 98 ran on a DOS. > > So what? > > > Port to Amiga, and c64 > > No. Amiga uses 68000 and that's dead. DOS is not a portable OS and it > can't be moved from x86 to anything else. It depends on and uses the > segmented memory architecture of x86-16 and it would be impossible as > well as pointless on anything else. The point of DOS is that it's very > simple and primitive. It would be much much *worse* than AmigaOS. > > DOS was based on the design of CP/M. CP/M existed for 68000: CP/M-68K. > Go resurrect that: the sources are there. > > https://www.mega-micros.co.uk/cpm-68k.htm > > Atari TOS was loosely descended from DR-DOS and CP/M-68K. EmTOS is a > modern version. It already runs on Amiga. > > https://github.com/emutos/emutos/blob/master/doc/readme-amiga-rom.txt > > C64 is an 8-bit architecture. DOS is 16-bit. Also impossible and pointless. > > But there is a kinda-sorta CP/M for 6502 now. > > https://github.com/davidgiven/cpm65 > > Channel your enthusiasm into learning the history! You are missing a > lot of the bigger picture here. Go read and learn. > > > > BIOSFreeDOS/UEFI Support/questions: supposedly UEFI runs on top of DOS. > > No it does not. > > UEFI uses FAT32 but not DOS and it's incompatible with any and all x86-16 > OSes. > > > BFreeDOS: feel free to use the name idea. FreeDOS for the blind and > others. > > Already a thing. Ask Karen Llewellyn. > > > Blynix - is a web browser for the blind using text, and is available for > multiple platforms. It requires some configuration and has support for > https. The g key can be used to type in a web address. The browser uses a > config file. > > DOS is a terrible choice for this. > > -- > Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com > Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven > IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 > Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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