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"DOS is a platform-independent acronym for disk operating system which later became a common shorthand for disk-based operating systems on IBM PC compatibles. DOS primarily consists of Microsoft's MS-DOS and a rebranded version under the name IBM PC DOS, both of which were introduced in 1981. Later compatible systems from other manufacturers include DR DOS (1988), ROM-DOS (1989), PTS-DOS (1993), and FreeDOS (1998)." -- taken from Wikipedia

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Overstrike vs. Insert (lemmy.one)

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This is strange, I am running MSDOS 6.22 on a modern laptop, a Lenovo i7 ideapad. The machine boots directly to MSDOS. There is an external keyboard attached because lenovo swapped the right shift key and the up arrow key in some way that causes me to hit up arrow when I mean shift.

I am finding that I can press the Insert key to switch to insert mode, as soon as I hit it sets itself back to overwrite mode. I have tried swapping the external keyboard for a different one, Removing CMDEDIT and loading doskey instead, then removing DOSKEY too and going without a command editor. The problem persisted through out all of this.

I even searched the BIOS for some salient setting, no luck.

I am sure it used to work as I am remembering it - the system starts up in insert mode and pressing the insert key toggles between insert and overwrite. The setting persists thru carriage returns.

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