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> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Natasha Portillo wrote:
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>> Is there any possibility to making FreeDOS a DOS based operating
>> system with a more modern and portable structure?
>
Possibly the closest you could come to reaching this end is using FreeDOS
in DOSEmu/Bochs on Linux and extending DOSEmu/Bochs to suit your needs
(making custom BIOS in Bochs or similar changes to DOSEmu). What I mean
by "to suit your needs" is modify DOSEmu/Bochs in such a way that features
you wish to have are callable by either a modified FD Kernel or your DOS
Apps and the respective emulator responds appropiately. One way I see
this happening is by having the BIOS Multitasking Calls hooked and then
implemented (Int 0x15, AX=0x80-0x82,0x85,0x90,0x91). This is obviously
not a simple task nor does it handle many issues but is one approach.
Louis
[SNIP]