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DOS is not dead
...like punk is not dead
Yeah, the famous ''distros'' are ''dead'' (MS-DOS,PC-DOS...), but some are still ''alive''. I started this topic because saw that one member suprised with how anyone today use DOS Today DOS is cheap system to someone who has small private bussines (as doctor, dentist...) and why he/she for one program which use to buy expensive licence for multitasks OS? DOS has long history, so you can find very big collection of software for it. Currently ''distros'' are: -DR-DOS 7.03 by DR DOS Inc. -ROM-DOS 7.1 by Datalight -PTS-DOS 32 by PhysTech Software -ZDOS by Zebor Technology and there are some open-source ''distros'' which are theoretically immortal: -FreeDOS (I think version 1.1) -RXDOS -RTXDOS 2000 (derivate of RXDOS) -NX-DOS and smaller, not so famous ''distros''... DOS available and for other architectures as MSX,PDP-11...and almost those ''distros'' are dead... |
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Personally, I wouldn't be so risky to base a business on DOS. While a quick Google search did reveal that some word processors are still available, I question how long drivers will remain current. Equally problematic, a large part of business is based upon sharing documents, & when a potential partner or customer wants you to write up a proposal & it isn't written in a Word-compatible form, you may have killed the deal. DOS proper was also limited to 640KB of memory. Yes, there was DPMI, but do all third-party applications support it? The problem in advocating that DOS is not dead is that anyone seriously using it will be entirely on their own -- meaning all support, configuration, & troubleshooting. While there may be someone who has the technical acumen to fix everything that breaks or needs to be enhanced, how much time will they be dedicating to the effort? Will the core business suffer from lack of attention? While it might be a romantic notion that DOS can be made viable today, the rest of the world most likely doesn't share in the nostalgia. |
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Absolutelly, for longtime distance future is guaranted for BSDs' & Linuxes' distros as sure.Proprietary OSes will available as their publishers. DOSes are almost proprietary OSes, and only one open source version is still active, but its development is so, so, so slow (my opinion)...DOS is good as I said for small bussines if customer use one or two programs and have no time to learn other OSes.And they are the best as you said for nostalgia, as ZX Spectrum emulator and nowday free or public domain games for it
Also there are so many fakes maybe more than any other OS, and in the most cases they are from Russia newer (and they are absolutely illegal) and older from East bloc (in some cases their legality is unknown because they are so good clones of Western famous DOSes). Last edited by John; 11th September 2011 at 05:57 PM. |
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I laughed, cried, then threw up all over my monitor.
Well played. |
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Yeah, I would like to see in near future reborned but as free, open source OS which will be similar as Windows 9x/Me (easier to say DOS-based daemonly-good GUI )... |
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Dos can never be dead .
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With FreeDOS well on it's way, DOS can never truly be dead.
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FreeDOS is shipped by a good deal of manufacters on various live distributions.
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Interested by the picture for PTS-DOS, http://www.phystechsoft.com/ptsdos.
I wonder how many nuclear power plants still use DOS. I guess it would be a much safer bet than Windows XP+ and the online activation ensuring it will die off (and thus ensuring nuclear meltdown). I heard OS/2 was a popular option with power stations. |
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My first "love" was in an office I worked at; a DEC Rainbow 100 running CP/M.
I learned about PC's on DOS 2.1; it was on a PCjr. Don't laugh! It was all I could afford; the Compaq Portable was $2,500 and the IBM PC was over $3,000- this is 1980 prices. Batch menus, QEMM memory manager, PC File, Central Point's PC-Tools, dBase III....ah, the good old days. |
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Yet - I can see that DOS had some beauty in its simplicity. And, for apps that were well debugged, the reliability was quite high (as per the nuke quote). The next time you're in a shop, take a peek around the clerk to the POS. You'll be surprised at how many shops still use good ol DOS POS software. Last edited by censored; 12th March 2014 at 02:59 PM. |
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The last time i used it was when i've done a firmware and BIOS update on my LSI RAID Controller...
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MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 are now MIT licensed...
source : https://opensource.com/article/18/10...ersions-ms-dos
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Dos is not dead, I use FreeDos for some things, it is dependable , and a complete OS,
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My best friends are parrots Last edited by PapaParrot; 30th October 2018 at 09:26 PM. |
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and DOS Ain't Dead forum has been brought back to life. FreeDOS 1.3 is upcoming and among the other things should include the new FreeCOM, new drivers, and a Coreutils rewrite for DOS
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I installed DOS 6.22 recently to help someone with a project. The joys of memory management, autoexec.bat and config.sys editing, packet drivers *shudder*. I don't miss doing it as part of my job (although that was more NT 3.5.1 at the time) - BUT, it did bring me back in a nostalgic way. I've been seriously thinking about investing some time in building up an old DOS Pentium or 486 to run some of the classic games I loved.
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