Running DOS applications?

[Noah Kantrowitz]

MARTIN WOODHOUSE wrote:
> Hello all
>    
>   If MSDOS (or freeDOS) is loaded onto a machine such as the XO which is booted via LinuxBios, 
>    
>   -- is it then possible to load and run a 'DOS' application --- by which I mean an application written in C and machine code and which has been compiled so as to use MSDOS as its underlying OS --- on that machine?
>    
>   
Does the application run inside DosBox? There is work being done on
porting/optimizing SDL to the XO, so this would probably be your best
bet. Running DOS on the XO itself would be an adventure to say the least.

--Noah

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