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Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
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Re: Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
#12It's funny how virtually everyone on HN is using AI to write code and simultaneously dismisses all interesting new software as written by AI.
Re: Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
#13It's funny how virtually everyone on HN is using AI to write code and simultaneously dismisses all interesting new software as written by AI.
It’s almost like those are two different populations of people?
Re: Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
#14Re: Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
#15It's funny how virtually everyone on HN is using AI to write code and simultaneously dismisses all interesting new software as written by AI.
Different groups, the spammers like to congratulate each other for how much hard work they must have put into their very impressive prompt engineering. Regardless, AI code is distinct from extremely blatant AI design. People dismiss things that had no actual design, just whatever fell out of the prompt they gave it. If you can't write a single human paragraph or put thought and care into how you are presenting 'your' project, it's not worth paying attention to. Why can't they present their own work honestly? Why would I spend energy looking at an OS made by someone who can't write an HTML file by themself?
Re: Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
#16This rewrites what-could-have-been history a bit... better get my IBM XT/286 out of storage! Is this for real?
I might have to try it out. I have an 8088 IBM PC (my first computer) on a desk. I need to swap out some bad RAM (I've been getting Parity errors and other strange behavior), but it says it works with 256KB so I could remove the AST SixPakPlus altogether. The fully populated mother board has 256KB. (I could also unplug the MFM hard drive controller as well.) It supports CGA and VGA and I have both (the CGA is original; the VGA is an 8-bit ISA one I picked up a couple years ago). I also have a serial mouse... Right now I have one floppy disk that came with a book I re-bought recently (Peter Norton's Guide to Assembly Language) and I could back up the files from it and use that but I think I'd rather buy/find another one to use. And I need more than one disk for this anyway.
Interesting, it currently says, 'Nobody has yet written the images to 5.25" media and booted an actual XT with them.'
Re: Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
#17Beveled-buttons Minesweeper (first appeared in Win 3.11 IIRC) running on a preemptive 8086 OS with a bootleg System 1/2/3 interface looks absolutely cursed.
Re: Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
#18It's funny how virtually everyone on HN is using AI to write code and simultaneously dismisses all interesting new software as written by AI.
There are both pro- and anti-AI factions here... and those with more nuanced views.
Personally, I don't care as long as the end result is good, but a lot of AI software tends to be in the lower end of the quality range.
Re: Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
#19> Hand-written real-mode 8086. No C, no linker, no runtime library. More like hand-prompted...
I'm surprised Claude is actually decent at real-mode Asm, but maybe there was a lot of attempts and guidance by the human.
Re: Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
#20You'd still need a Wordstar-like app and a VisiCalc-like app (pref. Lotus 123-like).
VGA adapter means you have to wait until 1987 to run this, otherwise you'd deal with CGA's non-square pixels. EGA support would only be possible in Oct 1984.