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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Using FreeDOS In 2022
Date: 24 Apr 2024 18:49:37 -0000
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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John McCue  <jmclnx@SPAMisBADgmail.com> wrote:
>Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:20:08 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:
>> 
>>> I really miss the simplicity of DOS.
>> 
>> Nobody is stopping you from running it.
>
>True
>
>But I hate VMs and I need to find hardware, plus, more
>importantly, a place to set up the hardware where I am
>living now :)

It doesn't take much hardware, which is part of the nice thing about it!
And FreeDOS will actually run off a USB stick, which makes it incredibly
handy to run small stuff because you don't have to dedicate a machine 
completely to it.  
--scott

-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."