Why “dos” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
We're not talking about DOS here. This is AmigaOS, a fully preemptively multitasked OS from day one. No memory protection, but unless your code is running on bare metal like dem…
by LocalH · Sep 26, 2026
> As for DOS, I have had the privilege of hacking together a bitbanging VGA adapter, so I know for a fact that drawing to the screen is really as simple as setting values in an…
by vunderba · Sep 26, 2026
I think the true generational divide was between DOS and Windows. After spending an inordinate amount of time in DOS (making the journey to Borland C), it felt awesome that you…
by torginus · Sep 26, 2026
I grew up in a little post soviet republic, in a small town with a big nuclear power plant. Coincidently, that's where my father was working as a programmer until the shutdown o…
by vkazanov · Sep 26, 2026
We have a client (a factory) I wrote a massive (for one person without AI) Clipper system for that runs the factory; this is decades ago but it just works and when they tried to…
by anonzzzies · Sep 26, 2026
AND more to the question - the contractor who remodeled my house in 2014 was still using some ancient DOS app, possibly running on a DOS machine or at least an emulator of one,…
by bryanwi · Sep 26, 2026
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