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Free95: Open-source windows-compatible operating system. (github.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Same reason why there are so many text editors that all do basically the same thing, I suppose. More options are not a bad idea, IMO. Maybe they'll do something different and interesting.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

A text editor is a whole different beast than cloning Windows 95/98/2000. I will note that ReactOS isn't simply building a compatibility layer, their end goal is to allow users to actually run unmodified driver binaries from that era to get hardware working.