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Dwedit 75 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: SDL Now Supports DOS

The really weird case is where the computer isn't actually compatible with DOS, so they put in a locked-down Linux distro that emulates FreeDOS.

ronsor 75 days ago [–]

Wasn't it Dell or HP that did this? IIRC it was FreeDOS-on-QEMU-on-X11-on-Linux.

1313ed01 73 days ago | [–]

HP: https://blog.tmm.cx/2022/05/15/the-very-weird-hewlett-packar...

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