Comment by jggonz
1 month ago
"Author" of os8088 here.
That's no longer the case. Someone that is contributing to the project is using real hardware to validate the changes. You can check out some of the systems he tested it with here: https://www.os8088.com/hardware
The system does currently run with 256KB of RAM, and you can use some of the basic apps, but not all of them.
Chris Hinsley started TaOS toward the end of the 80's .. Him sick of being asked by games industry managers to "do it again but for PC". By 1991 there was a start up, and by 1993 there were awards for his endian-independent VpAsm OS. I mention cos the tubling cube demo (two windows) would allow one to be dragged over the other without cubes slowing in their tumble at all, and without the envelope-drag-letGo-repaint effect. No stammering for the window manager. This tech was legendary and the multi-tasking was an order better than WinNT later which itself was an order better than Mac's cooperative-task-thunking. Lots of the videos of that time lost sadly, and all the source code. Chris is doing it all again, but making it harder for himself -> https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp - while also using LLMs for lots of it.