The FreeDOS kernel originally produced by Pat Villani and what we consider today to be the full featured operating system "FreeDOS" by Jim Hall and is currently maintained by the FreeDOS team, including many third party contributors. It's first goal was to create a full featured MS DOS clone but it has extended beyond this with features like "out of the box" networking support.
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Only with a good protected mode/vm86 extender (I don't know if any supports x86-64) and a fast enough compiler (dunno if djgpp supports recent gcc builds either).
But for direct hw manipulation and realtime tasks (remember all those vga scrollers, demos relying on vertical& horizontal retrace for their effects), DOS can hardly be matched 
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Then you *HAVE* to check this out. http://www.japheth.de/HX.html
Its like Win32s for dos! Its really cool!
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Python also has a complete and functioning DOS port. See http://www.caddit.net/pythond.php
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Out of curiosity, I downloaded OpenGEM and ran its install.bat from an XP command prompt. After it littered my C: drive with about 5 new directories and gem.bat in the root directory (ah, the good old days) I typed in 'gem.bat', and lo and behold, it worked. Not terribly functional, but still fun to play with for a few minutes.