Bug#144042: RFP: freedos -- complete, free, MSDOS compatible operating system.

[Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>]

retitle 144042 ITP: freedos -- complete, free, MSDOS compatible operating system
thanks

> Problems packaging FreeDOS are:
> 1. That the build system is DOS-oriented, and it would need either heavy
> modification of the Makefiles or (preferably IMO) to be built inside
> a DOS emulator like DOSEMU.
> 2. FreeDOS is built with nonfree C compilers in upstream.
> As explained by Pat Villani, GCC is unable to build the FreeDOS kernel:
> "The GNU C compiler currently don't support real mode (16-bit) X86
> code generation. In addition, it will not run on a PC using MS-DOS in
> real mode.  This defeats the purpose of FreeDOS, so there are no plans
> to port the compiler at this time." (see
> http://www.freedos.org/faq/cgi-bin/fom-serve/cache/30.html) Maybe bcc
> can be used to build the kernel instead.

This looks really nasty, but I'll see what I can do.

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| Bas Zoetekouw                  | Si l'on sait exactement ce   |
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|    bas@A-Es2.uu.nl             |               Pablo Picasso  |
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