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.
| Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File size | Downloads |
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2.11 | English |
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3.45MB | 12 |
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2.50 | English |
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4.37MB | 8 |
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Toolbox 1.08 | English |
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3.2MB | 5 |