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DOS Subsystem for Linux

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Post by geocar » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 3:33 PM UTC

DOS Subsystem for Linux
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#2

Post by GEBBL » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 3:51 PM UTC

Otherwise known as DSL?

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#3

Post by nathell » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 3:59 PM UTC

GEBBL wrote: post #2

Otherwise known as DSL?

DSL also stands for Damn Small Linux. And Digital Subscriber Line. And a few other things.

One might almost think we need a Domain-Specific Language to distinguish between all these meanings.

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Post by kencausey » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 4:02 PM UTC

Note: if you edit the post before the time limit passes you can fix the casing of Dos.

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#5

Post by ulzeraj » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 4:03 PM UTC

Might want to look at mtools.

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Post by zymhan » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 4:04 PM UTC

GEBBL wrote: post #2

Otherwise known as DSL?

....no?

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#7

Post by panpanna » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 4:07 PM UTC

I guess someone had to ask this...

Does it run under WSL?

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#8

Post by phendrenad2 » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 4:12 PM UTC

So does this run DOS on Windows? Or DOS on Linux? Or Linux on DOS? Or DOS on Linux on Windows? Would be nice if there were an explanation in the README.

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Post by lm2s » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 4:16 PM UTC

Take that, Microsoft! :D

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Post by benjojo12 » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 4:16 PM UTC

phendrenad2 wrote: post #8

So does this run DOS on Windows? Or DOS on Linux? Or Linux on DOS? Or DOS on Linux on Windows? Would be nice if there were an explanation in the README.

This runs Linux "inside" of DOS, allowing you to exec Linux i686 binaries "inside" of a DOS terminal

I put inside in quotes because how this actually works is quite amusing (and apparently is actually how Windows 95 also works)

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