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Hobbyist Builds a Modern System That Still Runs MS-DOS
He's the long-time Slashdot reader who installed Linux on a 1993 PC — and then installed a 1994 version of MS-DOS on a modern Thinkpad X13. (And somewhere along the way, he even built a ChatGPT client for DOS...) But in a new blog post, yeokm1 reveals "I recently built myself a PC," salvag...
The fact that a 30-year-old MS-DOS 6.22 can still work well enough on such a modern hardware is testament to the efforts made by the industry to ensure good x86 PC backward compatibility. I'm also impressed that the modern Nvidia Geforce 4060 Ti still supports some legacy video BIOS modes to a usable level although this is not complete. (And also to experiment with light machine-learning workloads, do basic video editing, run virtual machines.)
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