• MeanEYE@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Well, DOS is open source now. And that old hardware was quite reliable. Fewer moving parts, I’d expect fewer things to break.

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      5 months ago

      Only MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 are open-sourced under MIT license, anything newer is not. These versions were pretty bare-bones, only DOS 2.0 implemented directories for example.

      Unless you mean FreeDOS, which is an open-source DOS-based operating system, which generally should work with any DOS programs/games, but it still may not be 100% compatible with some proprietary software.

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        5 months ago

        Yes, meant FreeDOS, and older versions of DOS. Can’t say I had issues with FreeDOS. But then again, it’s not like I use it daily.