On 01 Dec 2019, Moshpit said the following...

Hi all,
Out of curiosity how many folks have a machine running MS-DOS currently? Any of the original versions.. No DOS-BOX or such.. just Microsoft. If so, what are you using it for? I miss it for sure. It just struck me that someone may still be using a copy of it for some reason
or another.

I do have a machine that boots to MS-DOS 6.22 and Desqview-386. It is not currently being used for anything, although I sometimes fire it up when I
need something that does not work in dosemu, DOSBOX, or if I need access to something on a 5.25" floppy. :)


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I plan on offering traditional phone lines this year, glad to know that some people are still doing it old school :)

Still doing it here.

Mike


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Yeah, it does support downloading, but only Xmodem and YModem. Michael Brutman >did say he would consider adding the feature if enough people requested it but >I don't think anyone other than me has. Trouble is, many BBS's these day's only
have Zmodem and/or URL download. Xmodem isn't available on many BBS's these
days.

X and Ymodem should still work here, and should work on many Synchronet
BBSes.

Mike


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I just realized I posted an empty reply. Sorry about that. I am currently running MSDos 6.22 as a virtual machine with a pile of dos applications, that have issues running through Mono or Wine. Sadly some of these programs were never ported to window/linux.

I am reading this in a dosemu window on a linux machine using an msdos QWK reader and text editor, reading a QWK packet from my msdos BBS that runs in a vm. Both are running under freedos. :)

Mike


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I'm still using MS-DOS daily. I use it mostly for text entry, calculations ect. I like the reliability and stability of DOS and it's something that grew on me years ago and I have kept it. I find I like it better for distraction free work, and I like the retro aspect of running it.
One of the palmtops is always with me and is used daily. I like it so well that I have 2 spares.

I use it daily also, at the very least to read BBS QWK packets. :)

I did not realize that DOS would run on small appliances like palmtops. I always figured they used some proprietary OS. That is pretty neat.

Mike


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I did not realize that DOS would run on small appliances like palmtops.
I always figured they used some proprietary OS. That is pretty neat.

Mike

Yeah, I was quite surprised that it was running MS-DOS 5.0. It's a slimmed
down version with the bare essentials on the ROM. You can get it to boot off
a PCMCIA Flash card and run a full version if you wanted to bad enough. I
find the built in software really nice.
Theres a Word Processor, Lotus 123, HP Calc, Data Base, Appointment book,
Filer that's much like Norton Commander, Data Base, and a Terminal program.
You can drop out of the GUI at any time and go to the command prompt or
reboot fully in DOS with no built in software in ram.
I have to give HP credit in that they really put a lot of thought in building and coming up with a nice system that fits in your pocket.
Best of all it runs about 2 months on 2 AA alkaline batteries.

Miggs.

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