Using DOS Today

[Paul Bartlett]

I'm just curious what DOS software people here still run on a regular
basis. Are there any people here still running DOS for general daily
usage?
[trim]

I myself no longer use DOS (I am on Win32 7 but don't have any DOS
emulators), but I still remember it very fondly. To me it was very
user friendly, and there were beaucoup tons of quite useful freeware
and shareware programs available. I had the Norton Utilities for DOS,
before they became ghastly in their later Windows incarnation, and with
their NDOS command processor (a take-off from 4DOS), I could really
make things hum on a 80386/387/sx box from Radio Shack. These days I
still occasionally program in FreeBasic, which is mostly compatible
with QuickBasic, which in turn was a quite useful DOS compiler if one
was not going to go too heavily into graphical programming. If there
were not things I need on Win that just aren't available on DOS, I
might consider trying it again (or partitioning my HDD and installing
something like Linux or MINIX3 as a CLI in a multiboot system).

[sehnsucht]

I'm just curious what DOS software people here still run on a regular
basis. Are there any people here still running DOS for general daily
usage?
[trim]

Yes, FreeDOS 1.2/OpenDOS 7.0, on a '95 Pentium Pro, IDE controllers,
SB16, Realtek 8139 Ethernet, UHCI USB. It's mainly meant for retro-gaming, but
I also take notes while studying, write docs on Corel WP 6.22, read PDFs
through pdf2ps+ghostscript+pictview, code on Elvis/FreeMacs, learn C, listen to music on (OCP) Open Cubic Player, browse http pages with Dillo, and DOSLynx, Gopher with Gopherus (have many Phloggers friends, especially NetBSD/SDF guys), exchange files with my NAS with FTP/SSHDOS, play TELNET games, read mails with Mutt/FlMail, attend Usenet groups with Arachne, try legacy software, test new software releases for FreeDOS repo....there's just so many things to do if you actually think about it. When in need of
a GUI OpenGEM is my favorite, as featured, acceptably lightweight, and still
relatively actively maintained.

[Alejandro Lieber]

Instead of DOSLynx try Links 2.18 or Lynx 2.8.9 for DOS. They work
marvelously well in my 386DX40 with 8MBy. They can open any https site.

Several years ago, a wrote a suite for reading NNTP news with Arachne:

Read USENET News with Arachne: http://www.lieber.com.ar/nnews.zip

I regularly read NNTP news using UKA-PPP and Yarn.

Alejandro Lieber
Rosario Argentina

Post by sehnsucht

I'm just curious what DOS software people here still run on a regular
basis. Are there any people here still running DOS for general daily
usage?
[trim]

Yes, FreeDOS 1.2/OpenDOS 7.0, on a '95 Pentium Pro, IDE controllers,
SB16, Realtek 8139 Ethernet, UHCI USB. It's mainly meant for retro-gaming, but
I also take notes while studying, write docs on Corel WP 6.22, read PDFs
through pdf2ps+ghostscript+pictview, code on Elvis/FreeMacs, learn C, listen to music on (OCP) Open Cubic Player, browse http pages with Dillo, and DOSLynx, Gopher with Gopherus (have many Phloggers friends, especially NetBSD/SDF guys), exchange files with my NAS with FTP/SSHDOS, play TELNET games, read mails with Mutt/FlMail, attend Usenet groups with Arachne, try legacy software, test new software releases for FreeDOS repo....there's just so many things to do if you actually think about it. When in need of
a GUI OpenGEM is my favorite, as featured, acceptably lightweight, and still
relatively actively maintained.