Board:   [DoveNet] DoveNet General Chat
Subject: Re: ai shit from bbs peop
From:    Boraxman
Date:    Wed Oct 21, 2026 09:03

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 DM>   Re: Re: ai shit from bbs peop
 DM>   By: Boraxman to Digital Man on
 DM> 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.

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

There are DOS programs that can speak TCP.

I've used mTCP tools to use FTP sites and telnet internet hosts.  I've used a
gopher client on DOS to access the internet. Its build into the application,
rather than a seperate stack.

There is also the Arachne web browser.

The difficulty is getting the stack to fit in memory.

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