https://devendevour.iankulin.com/tags/freedos/Recent content in Freedos on dev.endevourHugoen-AUTue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://devendevour.iankulin.com/nostalgia/Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://devendevour.iankulin.com/nostalgia/<p>I&rsquo;m not super interested in FreeDOS, but did enjoy this video from Jim Hall since I lived through all this, and was working in IT (well, &lsquo;data processing&rsquo; actually) during the introduction of the IBM PC.</p> <div style="position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;"> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share; fullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3E5Hog5OnIM?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border:0;" title="YouTube video"></iframe> </div> <p>My first DOS was 2.11, but spent a lot more time on 3.12, and later 4.01. Windows wasn&rsquo;t really ready for anyone until 3.1 which is when I dived in there. I seem to remember purchasing a PC with a whole megabyte of RAM in anticipation!</p>