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One thing I like about DOS is that it is an useful OS and bootloader. In the win9x days it allowed me to use the computer even when windows broke. I see no repl
by marcodiego 5y ago
One thing I like about DOS is that it is an useful OS and bootloader. In the win9x days it allowed me to use the computer even when windows broke. I see no replacement for it in the free world, freedos has no support to linux file systems and it is becoming increasingly hard to run it on modern hardware. I really would like a modern replacement for it.
- hnlmorg 5y agoThere's plenty of live CD / USB OS's out there (albeit most being based on Linux). I've found they've more than covered my DOS use case of "I need to boot something in order to examine this busted computer".
- AshamedCaptain 5y agowhat about the bog-standard efi shell that comes in the firmware with practically every PC these days? it even resembles DOS (much more than it does any other os, at least)
- Koshkin 5y ago> bootloader https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loadlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loadlin (I love the idea of a bootloader I could play Doom on!)
- leeter 5y agoI'll do you one better, DOOM without an OS at all (sort of) https://github.com/Cacodemon345/uefidoom https://github.com/Cacodemon345/uefidoom
- guerrilla 5y ago> I see no replacement for it in the free world I know what you mean, but what about GRUB and UEFI? I think both of those could be supplemented to be able to do a lot of the same things, don't you think?
- marcodiego 5y agoGrub is great but has no write access and doesn’t allows me run eg. run a full compiler.
- AshamedCaptain 5y agoWell, the UEFI shell does.
- mixmastamyk 5y agoThe Linux console has more functionality than DOS ever did, sans GUI.