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Bad idea: boot a diskless (no floppy or HD) 5150 into DOS.

How? No, not the cassette port. The only other port. The keyboard!

We make a PC/XT protocol keyboard that writes a small stub and then copies DOS into RAM (with a ramdisk, natch) through the keyboard port.

in reply to Foone🏳️‍⚧️

AFAIK, only the XT BIOS has the test code still active for keyboard port upload: reenigne.org/xtserver/

Or do you have something that doesn't use the BIOS in mind?

in reply to William D. Jones

@cr1901 no, I mean a device that acts like a keyboard, and types in a BASIC program to start the upload, using its own code
in reply to Brad Martin

@Brad Martin

A Disk Operating System (DOS) is an Operating System (OS) that loads from disk versus being resident to be loaded from cmos such as Commodore 64 etc.

I am sure they are refer to a MS/DOS - PC/DOS compatible OS when they refer to DOS. Even though it would not be a DOS as it does not boot from a disk.

in reply to Unus Nemo

@unusnemo @bmartin427
I'm not sure where you've gotten the idea that a DOS has to be booted from disk. While that was the most common way to boot a DOS by.the 1980s, it wasn't always the case. A disk operating system is an operating system designed to operate a disk. What device it boots from is largely irrelevant.
Most early disk operating systems, e g. IBM's 1966 DOS/360, could be booted (IPLed) from tape, and that was not at all uncommon.
AFAIK, the very term "DOS" comes from DOS/360.
in reply to 🇺🇦 haxadecimal

in reply to 🇺🇦 haxadecimal

@brouhaha
And the Commodore 2040 dual disk drive had a DOS... in ROM. So that you could use your disk (with the 2 CPUs it also had).
@unusnemo @bmartin427
in reply to Foone🏳️‍⚧️

Very creative, even if technically a "bad idea" in the truest sense of the words.