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What to run on a new workstation? September 12, 2007

Posted by evilzenscientist in : evilzenscientist , trackback

New hardware for Jon and Laurence:

>> Now if you’ve got a 2 x dual CPUs, 6Gb ram , gigabit NIC etc.. then  
>> naturally you want an operating system that can make full use of this.  
>>   
>> Dell have supplied such a beast  
>>   
>> FreeDOS.  
>>   

Now we all know that Dell supply FreeDOS to keep the license and bundling police happy.. But what could you run on a new machine that’s less than useful..

Our ideas so far:

NetWare 2.2 with WordStar in the DOS memory
OS/2 Warp
DOS 6.2 with MAME as an arcade emulator
GNU/Hurd for the purists
Digital Research GEM
CP/M-86 with Wordstar and dBase II

So may sad ideas - here’s a list of current alternative OS:

http://www.freeos.com/compare/

What do you think?

Comments»

1. Vic - September 13, 2007

Any version of any Linux distro :)

2. Philippe Prud'homme - September 20, 2007

has to be MAME. In the process of building on myself.