Actually, there's a program called ka9q (and some derivatives such as
tnos) that can handle all the internet stuff for you. They use packet
drivers to handle the connections, and I remember I used to use them
with some 3com 509 cards I had. I ran my softcon.com domain off of ka9q
for nearly a year when I first set it up back in 1996 before I got my
linux box setup and transferred the domain to that. The nice thing
about using dos for your networking, (which someone else said way more
eloquently than I could, paraphrasing here), is that since dos doesn't
have a native tcp/ip stack, if the app dies, so does the tcp/ip
connection, so you don't have to worry about folks exploiting your
system to get in via backdoors. or buffer overruns.
So, in that vein, it's actually potentially very useful thing to run
your internet processes on a dos box, depending on what you're doing,
since most hacking attempts can't succeed against you.
That's very important for some applications.
On 12/25/2021 9:42 AM, John Vella wrote:
I'm guessing that I'm the only one who isn't interested in connecting
to the Internet using freedos. I wouldn't have a problem with others
doing it,but for me it would be yet another distraction. 😀
On Sat, 25 Dec 2021, 14:19 Travis Siegel, <tsie...@softcon.com> wrote:
How very cool. Wasn't aware that had been done. Thanks for
that. Now
I need to find some time to actually look at that, old as it is, I'm
always fascinated by such things.
Would have been nice if they'd released 3.3 though, since that's a
lot
closer to being useful. :)
On 12/24/2021 11:47 PM, Jon Brase wrote:
> This is much more recently than I think you're thinking:
>
> https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS
>
> Dec 24, 2021 22:42:44 Travis Siegel <tsie...@softcon.com>:
>
>
>> That was caldera that released their opendos as opensource,
not Microsoft.
>>
>> There were versions of ms dos that escaped into the wild, but
it wasn't a sanctioned release from microsoft.
>
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