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Re:The UCSD p-System, Apple Pascal, and a dream of cross-pla... by WalterBright on Friday April 18, 2025 @12:57PM (#43729819)
> there was little point in bringing out a new OS that wasn't compatible with it unless it was dramatically better in some way.

Make a free open source one.

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Re:The UCSD p-System, Apple Pascal, and a dream of cross-pla... by kragen on Friday April 18, 2025 @01:27PM (#43730104)
We do have FreeDOS now! Someone could have written it in 01981, but, as I understand it, the ideological motivation for such activities wouldn't be articulated until Stallman founded GNU years later.
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