News Oldest known version of DOS demoed — recently unearthed 86-DOS taken for a spin by retrocomputing archaeologist

[Admin]

86-DOS functions and tools are explored by a retrocomputing archaeologist who writes some CP/M Z80 code, ports it over to 86-DOS, and then runs it.

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[pjmelect]

I still use HEX2BIN regularly, I wonder what the changes are with the modern version.

 

[Colif]

So many dusty closets were invaded to find that copy. Need to be resistant to mildew with that job

 

[Darkoverlordofdata]

Where is his Archaeology degree from? Oh, that's right. This is tomshardware, you just make stuff up as you go along.

 

[mbbrutman]

Too bad it wasn't from a dusty closet.

There was a storage locker involved, a lot of grunt work to move and rescue all sorts of computers, books, equipment and other artifacts, and a few years of sorting and archiving before the image was posted to the Internet Archive.

 

[slightnitpick]

Where is his Archaeology degree from?

I thought computers were one of the few disciplinary areas where credentialism has some push-back.