Posted by: lucho 
07/09/2008, 16:22:41
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Me too. By the way, the 16-bit API can be served by a 32-bit kernel as in some multitasking / multi-user DOS variants. And I agree with Dasyar that the FreeDOS development has entered a downward trend. These guys, like Pat Villani now, use mostly Linux themselves, so they see DOS through the prism of DOSEMU. It's not by occasion that the former FreeDOS kernel maintainer Bart Oldeman was also the maintainer of DOSEMU. But for me, the beauty of DOS comes exactly from the opposite direction - when working with real hardware. The trio hardware - BIOS - DOS is what the classic PC was all about. The current PCs still fit this paradigm, but even if they won't, embedded x86 main boards that do will be produced for many years to come.
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