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What I wanted to do is make a "DOS" that's actually just a bootloader for a UNIX-like OS, but it's actually structured and works like DOS, just for launching ke
by guerrilla 11mo ago
What I wanted to do is make a "DOS" that's actually just a bootloader for a UNIX-like OS, but it's actually structured and works like DOS, just for launching kernels and minimal file management.
I think the real hard thing would be writing a full BIOS for an 8086 from scratch, capable of running a real DOS. I also wanted to do that, but...
- oso2k 11mo agoThere were loadlin and grub4dos back in the day. A more recent development is doslinux (https://github.com/lpsantil/doslinux https://github.com/lpsantil/doslinux) but it is far less complete. But more hackable if you just want to see something work.