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       Phar Lap FrontRunner - The Winning DOS Desktop for Windows
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 46 points
       Date   : 2022-10-26 18:12 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | 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.
        
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       | 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! :-)
        
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