Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 29, 2005 12:49 AM
Contrary to what the article says you can have multitasking, web browsers and rich multimedia players under DOS. No, the FreeDOS distribution doesn't include all too many useful third-party applications; it's somewhat limited with its goal to try to be a pure MS-DOS clone.
The free version of OpenDOS included a damn cool taskmanager (taskman.exe), which provides virtual consoles almost like Linux. (And there are other options.)
You won't succeed with DSL and WLAN, but networking tools also exist for DOS (the PPP driver is ported), and there are multiple browsers available (not Firefox though).
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 29, 2005 12:49 AMThe free version of OpenDOS included a damn cool taskmanager (taskman.exe), which provides virtual consoles almost like Linux. (And there are other options.)
You won't succeed with DSL and WLAN, but networking tools also exist for DOS (the PPP driver is ported), and there are multiple browsers available (not Firefox though).
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