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  • reactos

    A free Windows-compatible Operating System

  • That's what https://reactos.org/ has been trying to accomplish for years. Their source code is written in C, so I guess that's the correct answer.

  • MS-DOS

    Discontinued The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, for reference purposes

  • White a clone of MSDOS (see github.com/microsoft/ms-dos) in C and try to push that into the market. In the meantime write a GUI for that system and release a newer version of your OS combining the two components. Support your efforts with Diet Coke and pizza. For legal reasons you might need a new name for the system, call it "Doors 10" or something - the name should not be too IT-specific for marketing reasons.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • Chicago95

    A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux.

  • You can always just fancy XFCE up to look like Windows 95, if you really want. With Chicago95. Had a little bit of issues with the fonts, but other than that, it's damn close.

  • linux

    Linux kernel source tree

  • git clone https://github.com/torvalds/linux windows cd windows make menuconfig make -j$(nproc)

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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