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- Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual Basic
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Ask HN: Hunting for a Framework
> I've often wanted a VB6 equivalent for the web, but open source.
That's Gambas, it can create web apps.
https://gambas.sourceforge.net
Some more links here:
https://github.com/wekan/hx/tree/main/prototypes/ui/gambas
- Recovery of function prototypes in Visual Basic 6 executables
- Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux
MS-DOS
- MS-DOS v1.25, v2.0, v4.0 Source Code
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Open Sourcing DOS 4
This 4.0 code contains references to 4.00, though: https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/main/v4.0/src/BOOT/...
- DOS 4.0 Source Code Released Under MIT License
- Why Does Windows Use Backslash as Path Separator?
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ST-DOS
I recently stumbled across the MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 source code [1].
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
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The History of Xenix
“Despite this reduction in scope for MS-DOS 2.0, it did carry many bits of XENIX. The system adopted I/O redirection via less-than and greater-than symbols, piping, a hierarchical directory tree, file handles […]”
The source code for MSDOS 2 is available and the file descriptor stuff appears to be in https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/v2.0/source/... and XENIX2.ASM. It stands in contrast to the File Control Block API which MSDOS 1 (née 86-DOS) modeled after CP/M’s API.
- MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 is now open-source (2014)
- MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 is now open-source
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MS-DOS is now open-sourced
Asynchronous I/O figures in prominently in Windows NT. I was really surprised to see[0]:
Each driver in the chain defines two entry points; the strategy routine and the interrupt routine. The 2.0 DOS does not really make use of two entry points (it simply calls strategy, then immediately calls interrupt). This dual entry point scheme is designed to facilitate future multi-tasking versions of MS-DOS. In multi-tasking environments I/O must be asynchronous, to accomplish this the strategy routine will be called to queue (internally) a request and return quickly. It is then the responsibility of the interrupt routine to perform the actual I/O at interrupt time by picking requests off the internal queue (set up by the strategy routine), and process them. When a request is complete, it is flagged as "done" by the interrupt routine. The DOS periodically scans the list of requests looking for ones flagged as done, and "wakes up" the process waiting for the completion of the request.
I didn't realize that kind of forwarding-looking perspective was going into the design of MS-DOS.
[0] https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/v2.0/source/...
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Exploring the Internals of Linux v0.01
>Any others I'm missing?
I would suggest MS-DOS: https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
What are some alternatives?
HelloWorldDriver - twinBASIC Kernel mode driver demo
86Box - Emulator of x86-based machines based on PCem.
reactos - A free Windows-compatible Operating System
dosbox-x - DOSBox-X fork of the DOSBox project
gambas
Chicago95 - A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux.
MouseTray - Simple tray app to quickly adjust Windows cursor speed.
qubes-issues - The Qubes OS Project issue tracker
low-code-backend-dockered - Fully dockered starter kit for Elm with Hasura
emu2 - Simple x86 and DOS emulator for the Linux terminal.
pywin32 - Python for Windows (pywin32) Extensions
open-watcom-v2 - Open Watcom V2.0 - Source code repository, Wiki, Latest Binary build, Archived builds including all installers for download.