9 Jul
2014
9 Jul
'14
3:24 a.m.
i would say a huge tower machine instead of a pizza box machine like some of the ibm ps/2
model 95 units were a tower
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk>
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wed, Jul 9, 2014 3:13 am
Subject: Re: best dos machine
On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 03:18:54AM -0400, Derrick Meury wrote:
well your right but what i would like to do is have a
killer dos machine and
be able to have it run anything that was made for dos or any current home
brew dos program. also i would like it to have all the ports in use with all
kinds of cards like scsi, networking, video, sound, joystick, serial etc..
also want it with both size floppy drives, hard drive and a dat or some form
of tape drive and maybe cd rom if i had to have it
There is no single such machine that will run everything as in the DOS era,
software developers cut corners so it could be hit-and-miss.
It basically boils down to finding a representative machine that has an
acceptable spec, and the case isn't so massive and hideous that it ends in
divorce. I have a 2001-vintage Celeron 633 in a cute micro-ATX pizza-box case
for this purpose.
However, thanks to decades of compatibility cruft, DOS will still run on
state-of-the-art Haswell boxes.