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Sundray@lemmus.org to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 10 months ago

DOS's Last Stand on a modern Thinkpad: X13 Gen 1 with Intel i5-10310U

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DOS's Last Stand on a modern Thinkpad: X13 Gen 1 with Intel i5-10310U

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Sundray@lemmus.org to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 10 months ago
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When one thinks of modern technologies like Thunderbolt, 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet and modern CPUs, one would associate them with modern operating systems. How about DOS? It might seem impossible, however I did an experiment on a relatively modern 2020 Thinkpad and found that it can still run MS-DOS 6.22. MS-DOS 6.22 is the last standalone version of DOS released by Microsoft in June 1994. This makes it 30 years old today. I shall share the steps and challenges in locating a modern laptop capable of doing so and making the 30-year-old OS work on it with audio and networking functions. This is likely among the final generation of laptops able to run DOS natively.
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    https://freedos.org/

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      Also MS-DOS is out there now for anyone who cares to make it work with whatever

      https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

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