The FreeDOS Project<p>Modern computers have tons of memory & 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>