Yay! Finally I can use my XT again!

http://www.freedos.org/

... and wank in front of the great EGA pr0n grafix downloaded 20 years ago from your favorite BBS.

Nah, I was too young to have used BBS.

This is actually kind of cool. The operating system inside of Canon cameras is based on DOS. A hackable digital camera is a latent project idea I'd pursue if I knew anything about anything at all.

I always thought an open 'Dos' would be a nice, relatively small (compared to Linux, anyway) operating system for embedded systems.

Nice to see they're finally releasing it.

I wonder whether the standard install includes the tcp/ip stack and PPP?

Sigh... to little time to experiment with geeky stuff :(

"Sigh... to little time to experiment with geeky stuff :("

A bot in a cubicle.

I was reading about FreeDOS the other day.

But DOS isn't really an operating system. The kernel just loads code into memory and says, "OK bytes, here's the hardware, go do what you like!"

Everything about DOS sucks, from the file system to the commands and utilities. It should have been consigned to the great bit-bucket in the sky long ago.

Actually, I've never had a XT.

My first intel computer was a 486, which I still have.

>> But DOS isn't really an operating system. The kernel just loads code into memory and says, "OK bytes, here's the hardware, go do what you like!"  <<

You say that like it's a bad thing.
;-)

Seriously, the OS then becomes a general provider of services, and not this huge Master Control Program that prohibits you from doing cool things like hooking interrupts.

Ah, I'm SO glad I kept all those old PC DOS docs.  It will do networking (once upon a time) using -- CRNWR (?).  Something like that.  It was a driver, that provided a transparent layer to multiple Ethernet cards for DOS.

Yeah, TerminateStayResident (TSR), loadable device drivers, hookable interrupts -- good stuff.