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My head turned around. I read it like Vim loads MS-DOS, and I thought, why would it do that? But then it occured to me dat this means Vim can run under MS-DOS.
by hollander 11y ago
My head turned around. I read it like Vim loads MS-DOS, and I thought, why would it do that? But then it occured to me dat this means Vim can run under MS-DOS. It's been so long since I've used MS-DOS as OS, I can't imagine it anymore. To me it's just a program that is run by another something.
- justinmk 11y agoVim _cannot_ run under MS-DOS. It hasn't worked for years, that's why Neovim removed DOS support 2 years ago. The cries of "losing compatibility" were uninformed fear/uncertainty/doubt. Vim also doesn't run on OS/2 and other platforms, though the Makefiles have not yet been removed.
- majewsky 11y agoLast time I used MS-DOS productively was in 2008, for a lab course while studying physics. The specialized equipment they used came with a software that ran under MS-DOS, and from that point, they "never changed a running system". I've been told that this particular PC has still been in operation at least one year ago. I also remember that we had a problem with transferring the resulting data for analysis, because the physics department had just been equipped with new PCs that did not have floppy drives anymore.