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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

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lol, so disappointing to see the attacks when I'm just having some fun.

It would probably had been fine had you just not put the "hand written" part.

Funnily enough he removed hand written part also by Claude. Just wow.

Re: Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

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Por a ZMachine interpreter; there are ones for CP/M and DOS (Frotz).

Thank you for the idea! I was going to add a basic interpreter I've been working on in another project, but I think a port of Frotz is coming first now given how many resources are already available.

without networking its not beowulf-able so there's that.

Re: Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

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Sorry the question, i watched shortly your videos, i see you vibe-coding it in an emulator.. but did you try it in a real hardware? With real floppy disks?

Yes, you can see the hardware we tested here: https://www.os8088.com/hardware

I wish someone with a Book 8088 or a Pocket 386 would give this a go and report back.

Re: Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

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If we’re going to be really pedantic, there was no “System 1” as TFA says as well anyway - I don’t think there was an actual “version 1” of the System File version 1, and most of the routines at that point were in ROM. But an LLM would have caught that. Signs of a human touch?

> I don’t think there was an actual “version 1” of the System File version 1 There definitely was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_1 : “The Macintosh "System 1" is the first major release of the classic Mac OS operating system. It was developed for the Motorola 68000 microprocessor. System 1 was released on January 24, 1984, along with the Macintosh 128K, the first in the Macintosh family of personal computers.…

Watch out for the scare quotes though - it actually did give me the opportunity to check: Finder 1.0 shipped with System file .97, and Finder 1.1 shipped with System file 1.1g - and it looks like “System Software 1.0” actually refers to Finder 5.2/System file 3.1!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS#System_1,_2,_3,...

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