8 Jul
2014
8 Jul
'14
8:23 a.m.
I think the penultimate DOS machine would be the IBM PS/2 9595 with a
Pentium CPU complex, if money is no object ;)
If you have any old Macs around with a free NuBus or PCI slot, you can find
DOS compatibility cards for them; that's a nice way to get a "vintage"
(486/586) PC in a small form factor and not have to pile up so much
(relatively) uninteresting (from a historical point-of-view) old white-box
PC hardware.
Emulation or virtual machines are another option, as Peter states, although
if you're trying to talk to external peripherals it can get tricky (say,
trying to get modems to work thru a USB-to-Serial adapter hooked up to a
VMware box - some kind of timing issue here?)
Depends on what you are trying to run... games? productivity software? Some
old software has extreme "timing issues" if you try to just stick DOS on a
modern PC and run it... it usually goes too fast...
Best,
Sean
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 06:02:04AM -0400, Derrick
Meury wrote:
i have been thinking of running a good dos
machine or finding one. [...]
Just pick up a contemporary hand-me-down and stick FreeDOS on it. That'll
run a
whole load of DOS stuff very well. You can install QEMU or Bochs and then
MS-DOS within that if you want to run something that specifically relies on
Microsoft's DOS implementation such as Windows 3.
FreeDOS will even run on an Intel Mac if you try hard enough.