From: harald DOT mommer AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de (Harald Mommer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Make own 32Bit Dos?
Date: 6 Dec 1996 17:57:41 GMT
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In article <57lfph$tpo AT news01 DOT btx DOT dtag DOT de>,
	GBeushausen AT t-online DOT de (Gunnar Beushausen) writes:
> Hi,
> here in Germany is a alternative Dos distribution available by a company 
> called PTS. It seemes to be pretty good and very compatible with MS DOS. 
> And it comes with full Turbo Assembler (16BIT) source code.
> 
> Do you think it would be possible to convert that source code to 32Bit 
> GNU as assembler? That would be real nice, what do you think?

- The product is copyrighted by a russian company. It is not
  freeware. Of course, in your private room you can do what
  you want with it because nobody sees, but it would be impossible to
  distribute your port to gas.

- Porting a 16 bit assembler source to a 32 bit assembler doesn't 
  make a 32 bit OS. All structures in DOS are optimized for 16 Bit,
  and in the moment you change that you will get an incompatible
  operating system.

- Not all sources are available. There exists no EMM386.EXE in the 
  distrubution, neither in source for nor in binary form. And without 
  EMM386.EXE most people will get problems with lack of base memory.

So I think what you want to do doesn't make any sense.

Harald
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