http://www.osnews.com/story/15765/FreeDOS_9_Review Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:00:56 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?160284 http://osnews.com/thread?160284 If i remember correctly, Ruby works in DOS as well, with all its object oriented and "threaded" goodness. I think perl also has a Dos Build. Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (slashdev) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?160303 http://osnews.com/thread?160303 Another option for development are the Openwatcom compilers for C/C++/Fortran77 in both real and protected mode. Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jgfenix) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?160311 http://osnews.com/thread?160311 Now THAT is an alternative OS. Nice one, 'news. Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (twenex) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?160314 http://osnews.com/thread?160314 With basic network support FreeDOS is probably perfect for the job.

Also good to be used as cheap POS terminals. I have some clients that still use Clipper programs and refuse to move on. >:( Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (acobar) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?160332 http://osnews.com/thread?160332 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 Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (siki_miki) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?160341 http://osnews.com/thread?160341 Shouldn't there be a 0. in there somewhere? Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (orestes) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?160346 http://osnews.com/thread?160346 Enjoyed the review. Perhaps the author should have included a screenshot of archane web browser with a web page.

I have used archane on a windows 98 box a long time back and I can vouch for its usability. It is a very nice dos based web browser. Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jbalmer) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?160362 http://osnews.com/thread?160362 Nah, they're just making up for lost time. Fri, 08 Sep 2006 02:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mmebane) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?160364 http://osnews.com/thread?160364 Then you *HAVE* to check this out. http://www.japheth.de/HX.html

Its like Win32s for dos! Its really cool! Fri, 08 Sep 2006 02:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (neozeed) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?160402 http://osnews.com/thread?160402 Python also has a complete and functioning DOS port. See http://www.caddit.net/pythond.php Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (saxiyn) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?160437 http://osnews.com/thread?160437 sadly most games use directx these days Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hobgoblin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?160460 http://osnews.com/thread?160460 "It's quite a amazing experience to see your desktop firing up within a wink."
Tired to wait minutes to have your desktop usable ?
Booting my MacBook takes just somme seconds more than awake it, which is 2 or 3 seconds. I mean *desktop usable*.
I just open it and use it. Don't have to wait at all.

By the way, why would i want to use a very old pc with no space on disk and so on... ? Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sandorfal) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?160467 http://osnews.com/thread?160467 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. Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (joshv) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?160691 http://osnews.com/thread?160691 Because we can't all afford macbooks.... Sat, 09 Sep 2006 02:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JonO) Comments