kzinti wrote:
thewrongchristian wrote:
Windows 95 was run atop DOS much in the same way Windows 3.11 was.
That is false. Windows 95 didn't run on top of DOS.
I should know, I worked on graphics drivers for both Windows 3.11 and Windows 95 in the 90s.
Thanks for the correction, I didn't remember that anymore. I used Win95 back then and it had DOS available. So it led me to the wrong conclusion it was ontop of DOS.
nexos wrote:
UPDATE: Because NexWin is a BIG project, I am going to use FreeDOS as the base layer. I will not make NexDOS, as there is no point in reinventing the wheel.
Good to hear, because there are so many DOS clones out there (See the OS project thread in "Announcements").
Perhaps you could cut the NexWin project into smaller chunks or milestones. Don't know. It doesn't need to have 100% compatibility, does it?
There is a public domain project aiming at producing a PD Windows "clone" or so. But the maintainer isn't the most pragmatical guy IMHO. He's actually here at the forum. At least he was here to announce some milestone about self hosting his DOS/Unix-style OS. I'm not sure if he still tries to produce a Windows replacement.
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=36735EDIT: I quote from his project webpage:
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The 32-bit version is now known as PD-Windows, as it supports some of the Win32 API, allowing a subset of Windows executables to be run. It sits on top of 32-bit PDOS/386.
Greetings
Peter