9 Jul
2014
9 Jul
'14
2:23 a.m.
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 03:19:08PM -0400, John Wilson wrote:
[...]
You can't go wrong with (MS-DOS-like) DOS. It runs
fine on modern hardware. I
do my main software development daily on a DR-DOS V8 system and I just don't
want to hear the whining of some kid who hated using it for a single day so
much that he had to write an article complaining about it. DOS works as well
as it ever did, except INSANELY faster and with basically infinite disk
space.
Prompted by this thread, I fired up FreeDOS up on an i7 with 8GB of RAM and a
2TB disk. It nearly had kittens, and the cluster sizes were silly. But there's
still about 1.9998TB left on the disk. Now what do I do with it? :)
Somewhat curiously, it reported the full 8GB of RAM as available, although it's
not entirely clear to me how DOS apps can make use of that short of switching
into long mode and bootstrapping a real operating system.