DOS ain't dead

I was playing a few hours with TBOS today, interesting system...
TBOS itself (tbos.sys) is a minimalistic DOS kernel (just 18kB) which allows you to run some DOS programs. But it has not implemented a lot of DOS services so many programs hangs with error message - e.g. I tried to replace shell by datalight minicmd, freecom, ms-dos 6.22 command.com, cwsd-stubbed bash but nothink works. It also don't support HDD/FAT16, runs only on a floppy (similar to FlopOS)

There are 2 shells for TBOS: tbcmd.exe (60kB) which is mostly a BASIC-like script interpretter. It doesn't have even basic command like dir but you can write it as a sctipt using findfirst/findnext funcs. And you can run external DOS progs by typing filename,

The second shell is tbosdt.exe (312kB) which contains some powerfull commands wchich may come handy when messing with fallen winxp. It can mount various FS - FAT16/32 with LFN support, NTFS (partial support), ISO9660, MSVPC disk image. Some FS can be acessed from physical media same like from a image file. You can create/restore partition images. Also it has commands for editing windows registry and even you can install mass storage controller driver with it to make your win bootable again.

Then I found another nice prog. on TeraByte's site - Image for DOS. It's some kinda Norton Ghost for backup/restore HD/partitions but it have support for USB Mass Storage, FireWire and ATAPI CD/DVD burning (under pure DOS!), it hasn't network support.

So thanks for pointing to TB website.

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.