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FreeDOS - any users here?
jazzbiker:
Hi, PDP-8!
But if they are having fun offline how can we know about them here on the forum ;) ? They may have captured the whole world with the help of their offline battle-mechs, we, online sitters, will be the last to realize this shocking truth!
But I suppose, that one day the will feel themselves unable to resist an appeal to invent some OffLineNet :)
jazzbiker:
--- Quote from: PDP-8 on February 13, 2021, 04:10:14 AM ---The rebuild with FreeDOS was fun, but at the end of the day, using unix-like utils, it became apparent that the hardware was an abstraction.
--- End quote ---
According to the specifications I've seen it was driven by 8088 running 4.7 MHz :) and not a single Hz less!
Rich:
Hi jazzbiker
I heard it was 4.77 Mhz.
jazzbiker:
Hi, Rich!
You are precise, as usual :) !
Hi, PDP-8!
So it appears I'm alone happy FreeDOS keeper here?
jazzbiker:
Thinking around various processor types (supervisor+MMU or flat fun), application types (embedded executing limited routines set or operating system typed), general architecture (von Neumann, Harward), possibilities of self-hosted development, I came to unexpected conclusion, that TinyCore extension-based design is to the great extent implementation of Harward architecture! And due to its availability on von Neumann's type hardware, it accumulates the best features of both architectures.
About boxes, driven by MMU-less CPUs I think they can serve as the great customizable terminals, connected to the appropriate host through serial channel, and FreeDOS seems to be the best suited "firmware" for such a client.
Regards!
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