Motorola RISC & DOS
10-Mar-90 18:36:13
Sb: #24412-Motorola RISC & DOS
Fm: Richard B. Gilbert[VAX] 73026,2304
To: Jim Fowler 72355,1742
Jim,
It seems to me that, to run MS-DOS or OS/2 on any non-80×86 processor,
you would have to write, not only an emulator for the 80×86 processor but
also provide a BIOS in either native or emulation mode. It also seems to
me that any possible performance advantage would be eaten by the necessary
emulation software.
It might well be easier to write a DOS lookalike operating system.
Then DOS applications that were written entirely in a high level language
could be recompiled. After you wrote the compilers of course ….