ReactOS

It's cancer.

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IBM went to the doors of Digital Research wanting an OS for their fledgling microcomputer. CP/M-86 wasn't ready, and when Gary Kildall's wife refused to sign an NDA after advised to from DRI's attorney, the IBM execs got butthurt and went to Microsoft who originally pointed them towards DRI. Seattle Computer Products were at the time working on a CP/M-86 compatible system they called 86-DOS. Microsoft bought the rights to this system, told IBM they had an OS for their microcomputer, and a year later there was the IBM PC 5150, running PC-DOS or MS-DOS, courtesy of Microsoft.

When DRI had a working version of CP/M for x86 platforms, and after a series of lawsuits were able to force IBM to provide it as an option for the IBM PC... however it was much, much more expensive than PC-DOS or MS-DOS at the time, so nobody bought it.

Gary Kildall was embittered about it for many, many years up until his death in '94 when he got drunk and fell down at a biker bar.

It could emulate BSOD on my rig

The whole point is that it should be fully compatible with windows drivers, let's not reinvent the wheel too much.
This is the last thing to worry about. The project is in alpha, a proper UI is something you'd start working on in late beta. And the current UI is fine enough. It's an OS made for old computers and work machines. Any user themes should be separate.
Kys kiddo.

oi wtf

Uh huh...

God, and here I thought that autism wasn't widespread. Guess I was wrong.>>882130

Has anyone tried running any of the following programs on it yet?
-Valve Hammer Editor
-ZHLT compiler
-Milkshape 3D
-Photoshop CS2
I'd like to relive my teenage years.

Goldsrc works well in ReactOS. I'm not sure about ZHLT compiler, or milkshape for that matter.
PS CS2 works on Reactos just well.