Agreed. "Because I can" is a valid engineering reason. :)
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On Sunday, July 7th, 2024 at 6:19 PM, Chelson a via Freedos-devel
<freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 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.
>>
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