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> The sad days of DOS. Any program could peek and poke the kernel, hook interrupts, write anywhere on disk. Sad? That was the best part of DOS. Some of my fond
by d3Xt3r 6mo ago
> The sad days of DOS. Any program could peek and poke the kernel, hook interrupts, write anywhere on disk.
Sad? That was the best part of DOS. Some of my fondest computing memories was on DOS - warts and all. Being able to live hexedit your drive and memory to cheat in games, the sheer freedom you got from hacking around the OS is incompatible to modern operating systems - even Linux.
You were in full control of your computer and you decided how it could be used, not some mega corporation or compliance agency.
DOS wasn't sad, it was fun.
- tehologist 6mo agoThis was also when most of these machines were not online. Security wasn't as much of a concern.
- Delk 6mo agoYou could do all of those things on an OS with proper security separation as long as you have full root access. There's no megacorp stopping you from reading and writing kernel memory. Unless, of course, the computer refuses to run software not signed by the megacorp or some software refuses to run without a digitally signed chain all the way down to the firmware like some game anticheats do. But that's not really because of things like permission boundaries for processes. You can have those and still be in full control of those boundaries. It may be more convoluted than in a barebones system like DOS, of course.
- hun3 6mo agoPatchGuard would like to have a word with you.