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Creating a modern development environment for win98. Currently I’m working on a git client. I have no patience for learning C. So backporting git is not an option. I also don’t want to use cygwin. So I’m using a server to expose git as http endpoints and coding a git client in php to use in msdos. I have Vim 7.3 and and gnu coreutils working in msdos already. So soon I will have a very nice dev environment. I want to create a one click installer which gives you xampp, vim and then all the tooling I’ve created. I’m also interested in creating SPA that works in IE5.5. But I’ll do that when my tooling is ready.


For Git, you may be interested in JGit, which runs on the JVM. From some MSFN forum posts, it seems to be possible to run Hotspot JRE 8 on Windows 98.


I'd love to hear WHY you want to do this.


That is a ... heroic quest!




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