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Theoretically it will be possible Ubuntu on a smartphone before the end of next year. Moreover, if things go according to Canonical's roadmap, that Ubuntu smartphone will permit connecting the device to a keyboard and monitor and running as though it were a desktop. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/07/ubuntu-edge-indiegogo-campaign-for-ubuntu-touch-super-phone A few of us Ubuntu dosemuers (dosemirs?) are apprehensive about whether this change bodes ill for dosemu support, since it depends on a new display driver called Mir which supposedly will emulate the (ancient but reliable) X Windows, to whose innards dosemu is very closely linked. On the one hand, Canonical has been emphasizing that Mir will be 100% compatible -- however, they have shown themselves willing to risk the ire of the Linux old guard, and since the maintainers of dosemu are quite senior, it's possible they wouldn't care much what direction Ubuntu goes in. Though I'm wagering dosemu will work eventually, though probably not in the first Mir-implemented release, some fork will work (on the desktop at least). -Rafe T. On 07/22/2013 12:16 AM, Jon P wrote: Well, not yet. But I was curious to see if anyone has put DOS on an Android phone--and it appears someone has. Some Oxford University physicists have concocted JPC: a Java version of DOS that does indeed put a (nearly microscopic) DOS prompt A> on my smartphone, which now thinks it's an Intel Pentium II. Now I need to figure out how to get XY4 and XYWWWEB into a place where JPC can find it. http://jpc.sourceforge.net/home_home.html It was originally a virtual DOS machine for computers--at some point I'll try it with XY on WIndows 7. In the meantime, if anyone else wants to play with this, on phone or computer, I'd be curious about how useful it is. Jon Pareles |