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MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced! (www.youtube.com)
submitted 7 months ago by i_have_no_enemies to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

People believed that they could write better assembly. For speed and size.

Now we know we can't write better C.

Though my teacher in tech school a few years ago ran an entire OS, where everything is written in assembler. What was it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe Kolibri OS?

Its an amazing project, booting from a single floppy disk into a full graphical OS with multiple tools. And that on PCs with almost no RAM.

I sometimes use it to backup ancient PCs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah, sounds like this, thanks!

Makes me wonder why the suckless guys don't hook in there.