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Re:“Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own ... by inDigiNeous on Sunday December 14, 2014 @05:06AM (#8747902)
Why wouldn't it be true?

The terms used in the article are misleading though, like many people have already pointed out. Not an OS, a shell, I don't even know if you can build an OS with QBASIC alone, maybe with some assembler support, but I don't recall qbasic supporting assembler, at least without any binary tricks ?

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Re:“Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own ... by orangecomputer on Sunday December 14, 2014 @05:17PM (#8749767)
I've amended the original imgur post to reflect this. You're 100% correct, it's not an actual OS. but rather a primitive GUI of sorts that is an imitation/representation of what I perceive to be an 80s OS.
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Re:“Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own ... by unexistance on Sunday December 14, 2014 @08:37PM (#8750311)
heyya OP, I love CLI, so I really dig what you did here :D for now it runs under QBasic only?
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Re:“Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own ... by orangecomputer on Thursday December 18, 2014 @09:43AM (#8767371)
Yep, so far it's just for QBASIC. I can't see much point in resurrecting it or attempting to port it, but if I ever get into C#/C++/another modern language, I will likely focus on writing new and more interesting apps.
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