Re: [Freedos-devel] QUERY: freeDOS source

2008-03-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Andrew, > Is freedos a reverse engineering of MS-DOS... No. It is a program written based on the documentation about what MS DOS does for you, how it interacts with DOS software and drivers. At the moment, the FreeDOS kernel behaves a lot like MS DOS even as far as some quite exotic things ar

Re: [Freedos-devel] QUERY: freeDOS source

2008-03-13 Thread lyricalnanoha
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Andrew Wan wrote: > Is freedos a reverse engineering of MS-DOS... Not exactly a reverse-engineering, that job was done years ago, but a reimplementation of the API certainly... > built on IA32 architecture? IA16, really. *runs* > Are there any ports to say... mac, sun,

Re: [Freedos-devel] QUERY: freeDOS source

2008-03-13 Thread Jim Hall
On 3/13/08, Andrew Wan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is freedos a reverse engineering of MS-DOS... built on IA32 > architecture? Are there any ports to say... mac, sun, and other > architectures? > Am curious whether freedos can be natively ported to other > platforms... like PSP, etc. > > What

[Freedos-devel] QUERY: freeDOS source

2008-03-13 Thread Andrew Wan
Is freedos a reverse engineering of MS-DOS... built on IA32 architecture? Are there any ports to say... mac, sun, and other architectures? Am curious whether freedos can be natively ported to other platforms... like PSP, etc. What steps are required for one to do if one wants to port freedos