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I configured the PXE boot server at work to serve up a 100MB freedos image with Duke3d on it as one of the boot options, i think it's still there I never got around to setting up IPX so you could netboot a deathmatch though, maybe I should get some old thin clients and try again
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the only free operating system worth a drat is freebsd
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My favorite Linux is macOS 10.12 "Sierra"
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quote:a modern DOS lol
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who loving cares
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happy birthday fritos
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i think you mean GNU/FreeDOS
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happy birthday to the humble blow job
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pram posted:i think you mean GNU/FreeDOS owned
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Granbar posted:windows 10 is still free I hear one of the recent updates made it so sometimes the activate windows watermark will show up so you have to spend 11 seconds running regedit when you reboot
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a whale is a bad mascot for a DOS clone, it should be a trilobite or something
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DOS dinosaurs
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happy birthday!  🎉
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Silver Alicorn posted:DOS dinosaurs JCL hides
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PL/SQL mammoths
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Gazpacho posted:a whale is a bad mascot for a DOS clone, it should be a trilobite or something a pig with crap on it's balls
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rewrite the forums with DOS on DOPE
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Captain Foo posted:rewrite the forums with DOS on DOPE looked up dos on dope again and was reminded that codeplex failed and is shutting down lol 
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I used an old minimal FreeDOS Image to figure out whether the NEC ProSpeed/386 that I sent LuigiThirty was bootable, and then to run it's config tool (which I was able to get from NEC's FTP site) that let me learn that the system had a 40MB HD with Windows 3 installed, and switch over to booting from it instead of floppy
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Gazpacho posted:a whale is a bad mascot for a DOS clone, it should be a trilobite or something it should be a CP/M logo with the CP/M crossed out and replaced with QDOS with the Q subsequently crossed out too
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My freedos story: Our electrical engineer decided to use it to monitor a temperature sensor and control a freezer via some relays, because it was apparently the only operating system that would allow him to bitbash or whatever old rs-232 or whatever serial connections to emulate I2C It was godawful and slow, and his code used gotos and globals everywhere which made trying to script a series of ramp up/down temperatures ultra painful Don't use command lines friends (He's legit amazing at nearly everything but admits freedos was a mistake)
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Nanpa posted:the only operating system that would allow him to bitbash or whatever old rs-232 or whatever serial connections to emulate I2C you and your engineer are idiots hth
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rs-232, something linux definitely doesnt support lol
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pram posted:rs-232, something linux definitely doesnt support lol
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pram posted:rs-232, something linux definitely doesnt support lol probably writing to the serial port port or sometbung
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atomicthumbs posted:probably writing to the serial port port or sometbung you cant be this dumb
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FreeDOS Lays
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i used freedos in a retro system once and dark forces stopped working. welp that's my freedos story and how it's worse than ms-dos 6. see ya later
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i use freedos all of the time to flash bios and it suits my needs
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gonna say I prefer dr-dos
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or dos/xl
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freedos night mother fuckerss!!
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