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DOS软件下载 & 游戏分享（下载室） » [Discussion] How does everyone use DOS?

Floor1　fengme	Posted 2003-09-15 00:00
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Don't tell me everyone has a 486 and spends all day just running DOS. Using multi-boot? Using a DOS emulator? A separate small hard drive? Windows MSdos7+? Just asking~ thanks.

Floor2　龙王	Posted 2003-09-15 00:00
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The computer at my workplace from 1995 is still in service. Its only operating system is DOS. It's just been upgraded from MSDOS6.0 to 6.22. At home I generally use DOS with a boot CD and a boot floppy.

Floor3　fengme	Posted 2003-09-15 00:00
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What a great machine. Hehe~ A boot CD and a boot disk. Respect.

Floor4　cn_archer	Posted 2003-09-15 00:00
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I generally use emulators like VPC, but of course when the system crashes, I still need a boot disk.

Floor5　LanE	Posted 2003-09-15 00:00
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MSDOS7.10 installed on the machine, and 6.22 installed on the VM (I'm considering whether I should delete it).

Floor6　Wengier	Posted 2003-09-15 00:00
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Lately I've been using VMWare more often. Inside it is MS-DOS 7.10 (installed using the “MS-DOS 7.10 full installation edition”), and later I also installed Win3.x/9x GUI and so on on top of it.

Floor7　如是大师	Posted 2003-09-15 00:00
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Mainly using virtual machines, I guess... but I still carry a boot CD with me...

Floor8　Dark-Destroy	Posted 2003-09-16 00:00
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I have two PCs, connected with KVC, sharing one monitor, one keyboard, and mouse; one of the PCs is dedicated to running DOS.

Floor9　lemonhall	Posted 2003-09-16 00:00
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Me, I really do have a 486 running DOS. It has a full DJGPP package on it, can run PERL5, feels a lot like LINUX. Hehe

Floor10　fengme	Posted 2003-09-16 00:00
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Pretty impressive. Hehe~ A few days ago I saw a DOS emulator, pretty good. It can directly mount a disk directory into it. Called something like dosbox. Recommending it~ I'm still using VM, hehe~ PS: I admire people who use a 486. Before, when I wrote something on a 486 and compiled it, it took over 20s. And it always had errors too~ sigh~

Floor11　lemonhall	Posted 2003-09-16 00:00
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Actually 20s is still considered fast. Compiling programs with DJGPP on a 486 is really painful. Generally it won't finish compiling in less than 2 minutes (PS: my machine only has 4M of memory, and to compile 32-BIT programs it probably used a lot of hard disk as memory, painful!! )

Floor12　fengme	Posted 2003-09-16 00:00
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If you're in Jinan or Qingdao, I'll give you a stick of memory. edo16. I can give you a P100 CPU too. Hehe~ But why not upgrade? It doesn't cost much.

Floor13　lemonhall	Posted 2003-09-16 00:00
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Can't help it, it's an old COMPAQ laptop, can't be upgraded anymore. Hehe.

Floor14　fengme	Posted 2003-09-16 00:00
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^o^ Got it, got it~ hehe~ I guess you're doing low-level network development, right? Some friends are like that too, using a 486 laptop, looks very comfortable. When they see me using Vc they get annoyed. “Damn! For this little thing, asm is enough, why use Vc...” Hehe~

Floor15　slbbs	Posted 2003-10-15 00:00
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I picked up a P50 laptop for 350, 16M+1.44+300HD+256-color display, using TURBO BASIC to write an automated stock-picking program. Who knows how to save graphics in BMP format in BASIC under DOS?

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