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ahefner | 10 months ago

Not ideal, but MS-DOS seems to me like the most practical universal software platform. DOSBOX isn't going anywhere.

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kragen|10 months ago

It is of some practical use, but there are a lot of slightly incompatible versions of the IBM PC and of MS-DOG, so it doesn't offer the kind of strong reproducibility that I'm looking for.

3036e4|10 months ago

A DOS-executable is far more write-once-run-anywhere now than Java ever was, and the best thing is that no one is going to ever deprecate any API in DOS. There is no software rot in a dead OS.

kragen|10 months ago

You're damning it with faint praise, though.