https://lpxshow.com/lpx-episode-11-freedos-keeps-classic-computing-alive-decades-after-ms-dos/ Home of the LPX Show Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:17:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://lpxshow.com/lpx-episode-11-freedos-keeps-classic-computing-alive-decades-after-ms-dos/#comment-51 Mon, 02 Jan 2017 07:18:00 +0000 https://lpxshow.com/?p=215#comment-51 Why run Dos programs?
Well, some of the best, fast and useful programs came with DOS, during the early Windows days, like the WordStar that George R.R. Martin uses.
See also Robert J. Sawyer (another SF Writer), enthuse about WordStar on Vdos, and how the super Archimedian Lever Xywrite IV (Xywrite 4) and Xywrite 3 have exploited DOS and Vdos to get around many limits in Windows XP, 7, 8, 10 16 and 32 bit, to run rings around Microsoft programs. at sfwriter.com/blog/?p=5007%29 September 2016 “vDosPlus: 21st Century DOS!”
It also brings back WordPerfect 5 for Columbia Univeristy professor and PCMag writer Edward Mendelson.
As Mr. Sawyer said, his “interest in vDos and vDosPlus was in future-proofing my key writing tool, WordStar.”
Borland Sprint will soon be running with it.

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