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What are you doing today in DOS?

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companies still run accounting software from the 80-90's that only run in DOS

rebooting

>so many old good OSes that still have a following to make a thread about
>picks DOS

name 20

>so many old good OSes that still have a following to make a thread about
>picks a useful one instead
ftfy

OS/2
CP/M
Classic Mac OS
VMS
BeOS
NeXTSTEP
GEM
AmigaOS
Solaris
IRIX
A/UX
AIX
MINIX
Plan9
RISC OS
Xenix
GEOS
SymbOS
Maemo
Palm OS

Meant to reply to

tetris in QBASIC

Based.

Lets add TOS, MiNT, ProDOS, Towns OS, BSD, AROS, HP-UX.

>>picks a useful one instead
Spotted the "born in 1999"

Master of Magic

Daggerfall

>OS/2
Arca OS is pretty cool.
>Classic Mac OS
One of the best, SheepShaver is great and OS 9 compatible PowerPC hardware is dirt cheap on eBay.
>BeOS
Haiku OS (BeOS clone) is great. I'm posting from it now.
>GEM
OpenGEM on FreeDOS is great.
>AmigaOS
AROS (Amiga-like clone) is an interesting project.
>Solaris
OpenIndiana (based on Open Solaris) is pretty good.
>IRIX
Best OS and hardware ever made.
>A/UX
Nice Unix base with the OS 7 GUI.
>Plan9
Garbage.
>RISC OS
Works well on a Ras Pi.

Contributing SkyOS, a proprietary system that was discontinued years ago. Last I checked the site is down. Google it to find the last beta ISO and a key. It was a pretty decent OS back in 2009ish, but the dev is a prick and won't release the source.

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DOS Isn't an Operating System, it's a program launcher. There is nothing to be done in DOS but launch programs. I can do this elsewhere.

It literally stands for disk operating system you retard

Playing good games.

Despite being named Macintosh the computer isn't very edible.

>despite being called the bench press you don't press benches
This is your logic

The same could be argued for Classic Mac OS as well. The kernel doesn't do anything except launch other programs for stuff like drivers, memory management programs, etc.

>it's a program launcher
What do you think an operating system is? It's just supposed be a system to operate the hardware so you can just run the software without having to worry about the hardware side.

Modern OSes have a lot of shit built into them, but that's all software built on top of the basic operating system concept designed to make an OS more attractive to consumers.

This, Quads of devil

Operating systems can handle multiple functions at a single time. DOS can only handle ONE thing at a time, any circumvention of this is done by loading another program first to handle multiple functions.

Running one program at a time was standard when DOS was originally developed, Multitasking OSes came later.


The basic function of an OS is just to remove the need for the hardware to be manually initialised for running a given piece of software.

>CP/M
But that is daddy DOS.

My company's CNC routers run on DOS machines. We're worried they're going to crap out at any minute and we'll be SOL because the communication is related to the cpu clock speed lol

And many of those are also Unix derivatives. He got his 20 in though.

I tried SkyOS in a VM a while ago. It was pretty cool, too bad it never took off

What's some cool programs for DOS? Anyone remembers WordStar, PC-Write, Deluxe Paint, dBase, Telix, VP Planner and Lotus 1-2-3? Do they still hang around? What programs do you still use?

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Playing old vidya, duh.

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archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games
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bunnzy.org/
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ftp://ftp.bu.edu/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/

have you tried running it in dosbox with a fixed cycle count?
that feature is designed to run software designed for specific speed cpus

Ok, I need to install FreeDOS, preferably dualbooting with Linux.

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Actually 90.
Realistically though, out of and only half are old, some are DOS (and count only as one), some are unices (also count only as one) and very very few are actually useful and half of those only if you are interested in ATM OSes.

>gauging speed
>"oooops, too fast"
>factory explodes

Did you just implied the opposite of what the other poster said?

/vr/ stuff.

There was one point where I was tempted to set it up as a Linux boot loader on one old system. Haven't gotten around to it.

No, I implied that finding out the specific cycle count by trial and error might be funky.

I guess midnight commander or far manager? I don't know if they are dos programs, it's been long years since I used them.

midnight commander (gnu) is a clone of norton commander (dos)

I remember good old Norton Commander. Yeah, is from the DOS days, good stuff.

dir /p

copy mydick yourass

>only half are old
Most are 90's or older.

>some are DOS (and count only as one)
Wrong. Disk Operating Systems are generally not related, this is only something people who use PC and it's DOS delivertives think.

>some are unices (also count only as one)
Also wrong. Why should they count as one if the aren't binary compatible?

>half of those only if you are interested in ATM OSes.
You have no idea, do you?

MS-DOS has a kernel and a I/O driver.
Sure it heavily relies on direct BIOS calls.

>and very very few are actually useful
Examples please. This is the most retarded statement I've seen yet today on Jow Forums.

doom

>I remember good old Norton Commander. Yeah, is from the DOS days, good stuff.
DosNavigator is better.

Volkov Commander is better. Fully written in ASM.
Tiny and fast.

this reminds me of the warcraft 2 symbol for some reason

>What's some cool programs for DOS?
win.com

>AIX
still stronk

>Deluxe Paint
Originally an Amiga application, runs far better on Amiga also.

Several of those OSes are still going strong.

Is DOSBox any good?

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Bump for DOS

Why? Obviously nobody gives a shit.

If DOS could do 24-bit color people would care. And DOS is easily extensible so it could be possible. See: Win 9x

Windows9x is a whole Win32 layer that loads on top of DOS, it could easily be a standalone OS, it even has its own kernel.
It's not just a DOS GUI even though people like to joke about like it is.

This thread has been full of retarded arguments like yours. People really seem to have limited knowledge of the OS world here.

stackoverflow.com/questions/19460508/ms-dos-is-it-possible-to-program-24-bit-graphics

You're acting like people here never seen demoscene on DOS.

It plays the games I want it to.

I've used all those operating systems on real hardware (except TownOS, no X68000, do have a PC-98).

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Maybe PCem would be better.

Finally the turbo button has a use

Speak for (You)

i use it to play Flashback on my android box

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