Board:   [DoveNet] DoveNet General Chat
Subject: Re: ai shit from bbs peop
From:    Digital Man
Date:    Tue Oct 20, 2026 16:34

  Re: Re: ai shit from bbs peop
  By: Boraxman to Digital Man on Wed Oct 21 2026 09:03 am

 > -=> Digital Man wrote to Boraxman <=-
 >
 >  DM> @MSGID: <6AD6622B.139494.dove-gen@vert.synchro.net>
 >  DM> @REPLY: <6AD540C8.71052.dove-gen@bbs.mozysswamp.org>
 >  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
 >  >  DM> (port a Windows CLI program to MS/PC-DOS), it can't work miracles.
 >  >  DM> Given that task, the first thing the AI agent would likely do is
 >  >  DM> choose a "DOS extender" to run the ported program under to get
 >  >  DM> access to more memory. And that's not really writing a program for
 >  >  DM> 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.

So the original proposal was (AI) porting Win32 console tools to MS/PC-DOS. Whether there were ever any DOS programs that embedded their own TCP/IP/Network-driver stack into themselves is kind of a side point I think.
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                                            digital man (rob)

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