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penguin42

Obscure DOS of the day; OpenDOS (rebrand of DR-DOS)

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humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world

Human after all

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@penguin42 I have a copy of Ming DOS 3.2 for the Ming 8086 clone that I had

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penguin42@mastodon.org.uk

penguin42

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@humanhorseshoes Was that just MS-DOS with different drivers though?

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hrw@society.oftrolls.com

Marcin Juszkiewicz

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@penguin42 OpenDOS was great. Much better than MS-DOS on some things.

My master thesis was some network software written for DOS. Target was 386sx with 1MB ram and floppy (with 5MB Linux worked nice on same hw).

I used OpenDOS due to its license. One of nice things was ability to have multiple text consoles (kind of vt in Linux).

Vim with source on one, shell to run/build/debug my software on the other.

Turbo C++ 5.x was available with good license iirc.

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pavel

Pavel Machek

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@hrw @penguin42 Is there modern / free software clone of that / documentation / youtube demo? I have FreeDOS here, but it can't really do multiple consoles, which makes it pretty hard to use for me.
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