There is likely more demand for a 16-bit Windows reimplementation than that of DOS. The technical skills required to actually pull it off is simply far greater. One guy can make a functioning DOS in a week, no one is going to reimplement Windows in a faithful manner in a week.
There's quite a bit more in-house, legacy LOB applications in use than one realizes. The school using an old Amiga for an HVAC controller or the storage unit using an Apple II to run its electronic security gate aren't the one-offs they feel like. If the demand wasn't there, folks wouldn't be trying so hard to run Windows 3.1 on FreeDOS. Sent from my T-Mobile 5G Device Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: Danilo Pecher via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2024 1:10:50 PM To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Danilo Pecher <danilo.pec...@data-experts.biz> Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Contributing Well, in extremis you could go down the ReactOS route and reverse engineer Windows 3. But I doubt you'd be doing it for much more than shits and giggles. There's simply no demand for something like that. FreeDOS itself is a niche product to begin with. On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 at 19:23, Liam Proven via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 at 18:09, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > This is not about "something with graphics and mouse". > > > > It's like FreeDOS vs. MSDOS: it's only DOS if it executes Norton Commander. > > > > And it's only Windows if it executes MS Word and a bazillion windows games. > > I think you misinterpret me. > > I think there is basically zero chance MS will make Windows 1, 2 or 3 FOSS. > > (I suspect it's ashamed of the code, if it still has it at all. FOSS > MS-DOS 4 only happened because an external 3rd party found the code.) > > As such there is no prospect of the real thing in FreeDOS. > > So I took the stipulated suggestion of DV/X _or_ Win3 to mean > _something broadly functionally equivalent_. > > Something with: > > [_] windowing, including of existing DOS apps; > [_] with a GUI; > [_] with some of its own apps; > [_] with the ability to run others; > [_] something with some form of multitasking on top of plain unmodified > FreeDOS. > > As far as I know, PC GEOS ticks all of those boxes. I know of nothing > else that does. GEM comes closest and at best it can tick 3 of them. > > > -- > 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 227612: 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 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
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