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DOjS - Javascript for MSDOS

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First post, by Hamby

Posted on 2019-02-14, 10:49

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DEC HL on Twitter announced the release of 0.5 of DOjS, his MIT licensed (open source) Javascript interpreter for MSDOS and FreeDOS.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/02/11/dojs-a-n … ntagecomputing/

I've no connection to the project other than being interested in and excited by it.
I hope I (or someone with actual ability) can embed it into a DOS web browser such as Arachne or DilloDOS, thus making surfing the web from DOS computers somewhat more achievable.

Reply 1 of 5, by root42

Posted on 2019-02-14, 10:58

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Very interesting! Thanks for the link. Actually, Modern Javascript is a decent language by itself. Looking forward to see what people will do with it!

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Reply 2 of 5, by keenmaster486

Posted on 2019-02-14, 17:02

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I wish someone would update Links for HTML5 and modern Javascript, plus adding builds for Windows 3.1 and 9x. I can dream!

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Reply 3 of 5, by root42

Posted on 2019-02-14, 20:02

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Problem is: HTML5 and CSS3(?) with Javascript produce things that are extremely expensive to compute and draw. It will be veeeeery slooooow on retro systems. And might run out of memory…

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