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The FreeDOS Project<p>Modern computers have tons of memory &amp; disk. My desktop PC has 32GB memory and ¼TB NVME storage. </p><p>It's hard for some to imagine what programming was like when memory was counted in kilobytes and disks were single digit megabytes. </p><p>Here's a demonstration using <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreeDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeDOS</span></a> with 640kb memory and 5MB disk, using just <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/edlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edlin</span></a> and a C compiler to write programs. 🤓</p><p>➡️“Code like it’s the 1980s”</p><p>🌐 <a href="https://www.both.org/?p=10559" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">both.org/?p=10559</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
DesertFOX<p>After a few weeks of procrastination, I finally took the time to read up on how to use EDLIN.COM. There's simply no way around it if you want to work with early versions of DOS from the 80s.</p><p>This here is me adding a few new lines to the AUTOEXEC.BAT of an IBM DOS 3.30. It ain't much, but it works! 😃 </p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/EDLIN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EDLIN</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Oldschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oldschool</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Retro</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/80s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>80s</span></a></p>
Matthew Martin<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Edlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Edlin</span></a> in assembler is downright unreadable.</p><p>Make file has no unit tests... that would have to wait decade more.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/661305ed4e91e8ab578dcb96ac4816b0f32ece32/v4.0/src/CMD/EDLIN/MAKEFILE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/bl</span><span class="invisible">ob/661305ed4e91e8ab578dcb96ac4816b0f32ece32/v4.0/src/CMD/EDLIN/MAKEFILE</span></a></p><p><a href="https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/661305ed4e91e8ab578dcb96ac4816b0f32ece32/v4.0/src/CMD/EDLIN/EDLCMD1.ASM#L448" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/bl</span><span class="invisible">ob/661305ed4e91e8ab578dcb96ac4816b0f32ece32/v4.0/src/CMD/EDLIN/EDLCMD1.ASM#L448</span></a></p>
Tomas Ekeli<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gdinwiddie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@gdinwiddie@mastodon.social</a><span> ah, i remember that! even remember </span><a href="https://plud.re/tags/edlin" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#edlin</a><span> - but that was no fun at all</span></p>