I spent this whole weekend attempting to get QEMM and DesqView/X to run. But all I got was a wild adventure through the first Mb of ram instead. Which is a shame. I find it really special that dos was an operating system that was able to run an X11 windowing system.

I've also played more around with #vim but vim-plug does require an actual executable of git to get off the floor, so there goes my dreams of having my dream vim setup on dos right off the bat. I may have to consider writing my own #dos vim plugin manager that would curl the packages as a zip/tar and extracts them within the vim directory.

Then I'm sure there's going to be the fact that not that many vim plugins were made with DOS in mind.

Dos has its work cut out for it - that's for sure. I should probably document what I've been doing to bring the OS to relevancy cause I believe Dos is still fun and worth playing around with. More folks in Gen-Y and younger should give DOS a chance. Not in a serious sense, that's something that I feel Linux definitely deserves over Windows. But in a personal sense. There's lots that people can do to leave their mark on DOS much in the way that in the day of social media and in vibe-coded software, people still make their own websites and their own software by hand.

There's something to it with the fact that DOS has becoming vintage software that makes it worth exploring again. I cant quite put my finger on it but is sparks something in me.

#retrocomputing