William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2007, at 3:45 AM, Bob Axtell wrote:
>
>   
>> I needed 3 old DOS systems, and my old resources of the past (pawn  
>> shops) didn't have any, so to get them, I had to ask friends and  
>> relatives to search their storage lockers and closets for them. Out  
>> of 5 received, I cobbled together the 3 I needed by shifting hard  
>> disks around, parallel port cards, etc, tossing the broken stuff.
>>
>> FWIW, FreeDOS is the operating system of choice.
>>     
>
> Won't FreeDOS run on more modern hardware?  (although I guess at this  
> point it's getting hard to find "new hardware" that has a parallel  
> port.)
>   
Actually, almost any desktop can have a parallel port added. Heck, there 
are a LOT of  neat
stuff that was written primarily for FreeDos.
> I do see assorted single board computers advertised to run DOS.  I'm  
> a little surprised that it's not more common to see embedded systems  
> running DOS.  It might be interesting to see what happens in a couple  
> years when the original x86 patents have expired.  Could be a lot of  
> x86 SoC chips showing up?
>
>   
I know of a few embedded systems that run DOS, "searchlight dos" I 
believe. It was a total rewrite.

--Bob


> BillW
>   

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