Wendin DOS 2.11

Wendin DOS, from Wendin Inc. of Spokane, Washington, is an obscure VMS inspired clone of MS/PC-DOS that runs on 8088 machines, but offers multitasking on 386+.

It was basically implemented as a reusable VMS-inspired OS kernel for x86, with an MS-DOS personality layered on top of it. It supported running applications in multiple "windows" on the local display.

It was primarily targeted for use on large special purpose/industrial multitasking systems operated via terminals, and intended to run "well behaved" MS-DOS business applications.

It competed with the similar products PC-MOS, and Concurrent DOS. In many way it attempted to deliver the promises made by Multitasking MS-DOS 4, and early command-line OS/2.

Windin Inc, also published an Operating System Toolkit that one could use to customize their OS kernel.



Product type
OS
Vendor
Wendin-DOS Development Group
Release date
1987
Minimum CPU
8088
User interface
Text
Platform
DOS
Download count
25 (25 for release)

Downloads

Download name Version Language Architecture File size Downloads
Wendin DOS 2.11 (1987) (5.25-360k) 2.11 English 3.45MB 12
Wendin DOS Application Developers Kit 2.50 (1990) (5.25-1.2mb) 2.50 English 4.37MB 8
Wendin Operating System Toolbox 1.08 (1986) (5.25-360k) Toolbox 1.08 English 3.2MB 5

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