Re:I work in DOS for a day (2014)
by ashleyn on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @11:57PM
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Alpine Linux. Not just for Docker images.
I run it text-only on some crap Dell Dimension in my basement workshop. 15-21 megabytes of memory used on a default install. Has networking, framebuffer, usb, and otherwise all the modern trimmings. Probably the closest you'll ever come to a modern DOS experience. Like one commenter above said, everything seems more proprietary now. The moment I realised we no longer live in an open standards world, was when I realised there was no text-mode Discord client, not even possible to make without getting banned from the service.
I run it text-only on some crap Dell Dimension in my basement workshop. 15-21 megabytes of memory used on a default install. Has networking, framebuffer, usb, and otherwise all the modern trimmings. Probably the closest you'll ever come to a modern DOS experience. Like one commenter above said, everything seems more proprietary now. The moment I realised we no longer live in an open standards world, was when I realised there was no text-mode Discord client, not even possible to make without getting banned from the service.