Board:   [DoveNet] DoveNet General Chat
Subject: Re: ai shit from bbs peop
From:    Digital Man
Date:    Mon Oct 19, 2026 12:32

  Re: Re: ai shit from bbs peop
  By: Boraxman to Digital Man on Mon Oct 19 2026 08:49 am

 >  DM> AI doesn't magically take away the constraints (e.g. limited
 >  DM> addressable memory) of legacy systems or the lack of infrastructure
 >  DM> (e.g. TCP/IP stack), so while it could be used for such a thing (port a
 >  DM> Windows CLI program to MS/PC-DOS), it can't work miracles. Given that
 >  DM> task, the first thing the AI agent would likely do is choose a "DOS
 >  DM> extender" to run the ported program under to get access to more memory.
 >  DM> And that's not really writing a program for MS-DOS anymore. --

 > Isn't there a TCP/IP stack for MS-DOS.

MS/PC-DOS did not come with a TCP/IP stack and Microsoft never sold one for it
as an add-on either. So, "writing a (TCP/IP) program for MS-DOS" means writing/including/depending-on a 3rd party network stack.
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