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While I'm not necessarily 100% anti-AI, it would completely eliminate all the potential for learning and any "fun" from this project.

Yes, DR-DOS/Novell DOS 7 has a full 386 preemptive multitasking kernel and a decent API, which was essentially unused, with a few exceptions. See https://web.archive.org/web/201608…

Actually, while the TPA is "flat", the OS model is using only segmentation for protection and not paging currently. Just the segment is quite large:)

Thank you, as this is my project. As I said in the README, it's as much of a learning experience as it is a "practical" project. Using AI would eliminate the fun.

Yes, currently the system boots from a floppy disk (stage1 -> stage2 loader), which then loads the OS (CBIOS/BDOS/CCP) and an (384K) initial ramdisk, and currently runs out of memo…

Hi there, this is my project. And yes, you are essentially correct. It can actually work in a little less than 2MB, but this was done this way for simplicity, and to avoid, for now…

We also have a new CP/M-86 emulator at https://github.com/johnsonjh/emu2-cpm86

Multics MR12.9 is under active development. The current release is MR12.8, released August 8, 2023: https://multics-wiki.swenson.org/ . While Multics no longer commercially support…

While we do want to support GCOS, it'll be GCOS-3, and that is if we can find system tapes. We are actually planning another blog post soon that will touch on this. Now, Multics do…

> you're not allowed to add additional usage restrictions to GPL software SIMH is not GPL'd software.

I'll give an unpaid plug to https://www.softintegration.com/ for their Ch product, which is beyond excellent (and has existed for a very long time.) Clang-Repl/Cling is, however, n…

We should also mention that the PDF documentation has some graphics showing how these components are (physically) connected together at https://dps8m.gitlab.io/dps8m-r3.0.1-archive…

Yes, I was simplifying a bit :) Those who are interested should take a peek at https://dps8m.gitlab.io/dps8m/Overview/#supported-components to see all the various components that m…

Perhaps, however, SIMH ( http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ , https://opensimh.org/ ) also calls itself a simulator rather than an emulator. Six of one, half dozen of the other, I gues…

Yes, this interpretation is correct. It should be noted that not all of the hardware is strictly "emulated" (or simulated, if you prefer that term) in the traditional sense of inte…

See the homepage at https://dps8m.gitlab.io/ as well for more details.

I will confirm that Vile is an excellent editor. I don't know if I'd consider it a vi-clone, because the vi-ness is kind of skin-deep, but it's performant and works well. (In schoo…

Do you have a summary of those changes or a repo up anywhere? If they are general-purpose you might consider sending a PR upstream to n-t-roff

It should be simple, mostly fixes and no major features or refactoring.

pEmacs is "even better" for minimalists. https://github.com/hughbarney/pEmacs Stripped -Os build using link-time GC on Linux x86_64 glibc: 30 KB pe* Compare to portable mg: 132 KB …

OpenVi uses only secure functions (snprintf, strlcpy, etc.) as a matter of policy. This may lead to a more secure editor for untrusted files, but it depends on how careful the othe…

I dogfood OpenVi and use it for OpenVi development, however, 99% of my normal programming workflow is (terminal-based) NeoVim. The other 1% is Eclipse or VSCode ... and I have VSCo…

Of particular note, the lack of `expandtab` in Nvi and Traditional vi may be more of a showstopper than lack of multibyte glyph rendering for many.