Geek out!

[scooterscot]

Bit of DOS still useful for the odd thing!

exactly, I've no idea how you dir /s >list.txt in a GUI like Windows.

[OwlHoot]

Certainly is! Tend to use it when DNS gets its knickers in a twist

WSS.

Nothing like a quick "ipconfig /renew" or "ipconfig /flushdns" or similar

[BR14]

Is that DOS/VSE ??

[ladymuck]

Bit of DOS still useful for the odd thing!

Certainly is! Tend to use it when DNS gets its knickers in a twist

[xoggoth]

Bit of DOS still useful for the odd thing!

[BR14]

You sound like my Dad

Mibbee? - ah'm sayin' nothing

[ladymuck]

i remember times when PC's didn't exist.
not so simple though, back then

You sound like my Dad

[BR14]

https://mcuhacker.wordpress.com/

i remember times when PC's didn't exist.
not so simple though, back then

[vetran]

https://mcuhacker.wordpress.com/

Do you remember the simpler times when you had a DOS command line, a handful of commands, and you talked to the hardware through a few BIOS and DOS interrupts? Okay, maybe it was a little limited, but nostalgia doesn’t care. Now [mcuhacker] is working on bringing some of those memories back by getting a PC-XT emulator running on an ESP8266.

For the x86 CPU emulator, he ported Fake86 which is written in C, and created an Arduino IDE environment for it. The MS-DOS 3.3 bootdisk image is stored in flash and is accessed as the A: drive. There’s no keyboard yet but he has 640×200 CGA working with 80×25 characters on a 3.5″ TFT display with the help of a low pass filter circuit. In the video below he shows it booting to the point where it asks for the date.