So, I've been thinking about what to install on the #486DX that I fixed recently, and at first I'd thought I'd go with a period correct #MSDOS but then I reconsidered and had a look (in #86Box) at #FreeDOS, which I knew existed but had never used.

[gmc@friends.chasmcity.net]

So, I've been thinking about what to install on the #486DX that I fixed recently, and at first I'd thought I'd go with a period correct #MSDOS but then I reconsidered and had a look (in #86Box) at #FreeDOS, which I knew existed but had never used.

I've been playing around with it in the emulator and I'm convinced I want it. It's just so much fun to be back in DOS land again, but with the nifty additions of FreeDOS (such as a package manager) it feels more modern, in a good way.

I'm playing around with networking now to not have to write stuff to floppies in order to run stuff on the dos machine. FTP to my retro files on the NAS, for example. And now I'm exploring the package repository that is accessible through the network-enabled package manager.

Looking forward to installing this on the actual hardware!

@freedosproject

#RetroComputing

[wfk@social.v.st]

@gmc @freedosproject it's a 486, so any old *BSD, Linux, or Unix will be period correct, while DOS was at that time in the process of disappearing behind Windows.

[jmcunx@mastodon.sdf.org]

@wfk @gmc @freedosproject

IIRC, current #Linux, #FreeBSD and I think #OpenBSD no longer supports 486 systems. But I did see an article that #NetBSD can still be put on a 486. But I lost the link

With that said, if I had that system, I would probably put some form of DOS on it. Maybe some day I will find one

[fritzadalis@infosec.exchange]

@jmcunx @wfk @gmc @freedosproject
Period-correct could also include OS/2 or Desqview/X, or even Windows NT.