[HN Gopher] Phar Lap FrontRunner - The Winning DOS Desktop for W... ___________________________________________________________________ Phar Lap FrontRunner - The Winning DOS Desktop for Windows Author : todsacerdoti Score : 46 points Date : 2022-10-26 18:12 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com) (TXT) w3m dump (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com) | dblohm7 wrote: | The two companies I miss most are Phar Lap and NuMega. | jvandonsel wrote: | NuMega! Their SoftICE was amazing. | mobilio wrote: | I still have somewhere copy of SoftICE for DOS, W9X and | NT/2K/XP. | | But more interesting is here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en- | us/archive/blogs/matt_pietrek... | pridkett wrote: | After reading that I now have a sudden craving for 4DOS and 4OS2. | | I was young at the time and had "access" to a lot of amazing | software packages that I'm still learning how amazing they were. | Gotta wonder how things would be different if I didn't give up on | DESQView/X and decided to download Slackware one 1.44mb floppy at | a time from a local BBS. | teknolog wrote: | I ran my BBS on OS/2 for a couple years. Loved 4OS2. | glonq wrote: | Before Windows Embedded was a viable thing we built a product | around Phar Lap ETS, which was their embedded RTOS with a | Win32-compatbile API. | | It was great. A productive, civilized development experience | compared to many embedded environments back in those days. | xenonite wrote: | Looks a bit like Mac OS X to me, only upside down: menu bar, app | bar, status bar. | chx wrote: | Phar Lap made amazing DOS extenders. | [deleted] | mrlonglong wrote: | I liked DOS4GW better. | gattilorenz wrote: | This is not Phar Lap's DOS extender, is kind of an iTerm2 for | Windows 3.x | AshamedCaptain wrote: | Except that writing a windowed DOS terminal emulator involves | writing an entire VGA card emulator, likely a VGA BIOS, | hooking a bunch of DOS routines.... probably a DOS extender | too. | jamesfmilne wrote: | Like a smell from a cupboard in your grandmother's house, some of | these names conjure up strong memories from your childhood. | CamperBob2 wrote: | "Smells like that DOS extender I wanted to use but couldn't | afford. The one that was steamrolled into a thin red paste by | DOS/4GW." | _0ffh wrote: | Spot on! :-) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-26 23:00 UTC)