Linked by Marti van Lin on Thu 7th Sep 2006 21:07 UTC
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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RE: Crunching number machines!!!
by siki_miki on Fri 8th Sep 2006 00:06
in reply to "Crunching number machines!!!"
Member since:2006-01-17
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 
Member since:
2005-11-15
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. >:(