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PC-MOS released under GPL

55 points by geocar 9y ago

geocar 9y ago
Want to try it out? wget -O a.img https://github.com/roelandjansen/pcmos386v501/blob/master/IMAGES/PCMOS386-9-user.img?raw=true qemu-system-i386 -fda a.img
- geocar 9y ago
  I can almost get serial working: printf 'memdev = $386.sys /p\r\n' > config.sys printf 'device = pcterm.sys\r\n' >> config.sys printf 'device = $serial.sys /ad=03f8,in=4,hs=x,ib=2048,ob=2048\r\n' >> config.sys printf 'smpsize = 80k\r\n' >> config.sys printf 'buffers = 40\r\n' >> config.sys touch -mt 9311171533 config.sys mcopy -n -o -i a.img -m config.sys :: printf 'addtask 300k,1,,user01,pcterm,1,19200\r\n' > autoexec.bat touch -mt 9311171533 autoexec.bat mcopy -n -o -i a.img -m autoexec.bat :: qemu-system-i386 -fda a.img -chardev socket,server,host=127.0.0.1,port=4555,id=com1 -serial chardev:com1 -rtc base=1994-06-17T16:01:21 (then in another window) nc localhost 4555
rwmj 9y ago
Perhaps a better link is the github repository? https://github.com/roelandjansen/pcmos386v501 https://github.com/roelandjansen/pcmos386v501 That has a decent README and a link to Wikipedia which is quite comprehensive (I'd never heard of this OS before ...)
- unkown-unknowns 9y ago
  Maybe but the OP link has links to both of those and summarizes quite neatly what this is IMO.
shakna 9y ago
No Borland compiler suite yet, which hurts, but I understand the enormous difficulties of getting that sort of thing into public hands. I need to dig through my old software to see if I still have some of the software from back then. I think I still have a MS-DOS BASIC (WBASIC?) disc or two. The MS-DOS compatibility was one of the great things about PC-MOS.
- jakobdabo 9y ago
  Search for "abandonware". I personally like this[1] project; it isn't in English but their archive is really good, and Google Translate works. [1] http://old-dos.ru/index.php?page=files&mode=files http://old-dos.ru/index.php?page=files&mode=files
digi_owl 9y ago
A multi-user, multi-tasking MS compatible DOS?
- nitrogen 9y ago
  There was another such system back in the day called TSX-32. Before I had discovered Linux and heard of TSX-32, my dream as a kid was to create a multi-user DOS. [I'd paste the link but the Android paste popup isn't opening for some reason.]
  - 0xcde4c3db 9y ago
    Digital Research also produced Concurrent DOS (later renamed to Multiuser DOS), which I think was based on Concurrent CP/M-86.
microcolonel 9y ago
Seems it has its own filesystem, maybe somebody will shove this into a FUSE module. :- )
feelin_googley 9y ago
8 Insufficient disk space to install Operating System. PC-MOS Requires 800k to store systems files. Press F10 to Exit to PC-MOS. [PCMOS] https://github.com/roelandjansen/pcmos386v501/blob/master/SOURCES/src/mossrc1/INSTALL.MSG https://github.com/roelandjansen/pcmos386v501/blob/master/SO...
cowmix 9y ago
I actually used this OS in 1991 (with an X.25 card) to make a 12 station (over two sites) POS system. That main station was a 486 and all the terminals were 286s. It worked very, very well.
ospilot 9y ago
I would love to see something like this running -natively- on an ARM processor especially on the Raspberry Pi.

55 points by geocar 9y ago

Want to try it out? wget -O a.img https://github.com/roelandjansen/pcmos386v501/blob/master/IMAGES/PCMOS386-9-user.img?raw=true qemu-system-i386 -fda a.img

geocar 9y ago
I can almost get serial working: printf 'memdev = $386.sys /p\r\n' > config.sys printf 'device = pcterm.sys\r\n' >> config.sys printf 'device = $serial.sys /ad=03f8,in=4,hs=x,ib=2048,ob=2048\r\n' >> config.sys printf 'smpsize = 80k\r\n' >> config.sys printf 'buffers = 40\r\n' >> config.sys touch -mt 9311171533 config.sys mcopy -n -o -i a.img -m config.sys :: printf 'addtask 300k,1,,user01,pcterm,1,19200\r\n' > autoexec.bat touch -mt 9311171533 autoexec.bat mcopy -n -o -i a.img -m autoexec.bat :: qemu-system-i386 -fda a.img -chardev socket,server,host=127.0.0.1,port=4555,id=com1 -serial chardev:com1 -rtc base=1994-06-17T16:01:21 (then in another window) nc localhost 4555

rwmj 9y ago

Perhaps a better link is the github repository? https://github.com/roelandjansen/pcmos386v501 https://github.com/roelandjansen/pcmos386v501 That has a decent README and a link to Wikipedia which is quite comprehensive (I'd never heard of this OS before ...)

unkown-unknowns 9y ago
Maybe but the OP link has links to both of those and summarizes quite neatly what this is IMO.

shakna 9y ago

No Borland compiler suite yet, which hurts, but I understand the enormous difficulties of getting that sort of thing into public hands. I need to dig through my old software to see if I still have some of the software from back then. I think I still have a MS-DOS BASIC (WBASIC?) disc or two. The MS-DOS compatibility was one of the great things about PC-MOS.

jakobdabo 9y ago
Search for "abandonware". I personally like this[1] project; it isn't in English but their archive is really good, and Google Translate works. [1] http://old-dos.ru/index.php?page=files&mode=files http://old-dos.ru/index.php?page=files&mode=files

digi_owl 9y ago

A multi-user, multi-tasking MS compatible DOS?

nitrogen 9y ago
There was another such system back in the day called TSX-32. Before I had discovered Linux and heard of TSX-32, my dream as a kid was to create a multi-user DOS. [I'd paste the link but the Android paste popup isn't opening for some reason.]
- 0xcde4c3db 9y ago
  Digital Research also produced Concurrent DOS (later renamed to Multiuser DOS), which I think was based on Concurrent CP/M-86.

microcolonel 9y ago

Seems it has its own filesystem, maybe somebody will shove this into a FUSE module. :- )

feelin_googley 9y ago

8 Insufficient disk space to install Operating System. PC-MOS Requires 800k to store systems files. Press F10 to Exit to PC-MOS. [PCMOS] https://github.com/roelandjansen/pcmos386v501/blob/master/SOURCES/src/mossrc1/INSTALL.MSG https://github.com/roelandjansen/pcmos386v501/blob/master/SO...

cowmix 9y ago

I actually used this OS in 1991 (with an X.25 card) to make a 12 station (over two sites) POS system. That main station was a 486 and all the terminals were 286s. It worked very, very well.

ospilot 9y ago

I would love to see something like this running -natively- on an ARM processor especially on the Raspberry Pi.