DOSBox is not intended for those things.

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Eprom programmer = timing sensitive = no good with DOSBox = fried EPROMs

Mmmmm as long as it's fried, it's GREAT!

Everything fried is great 😉

But seriously for work like that make yourself a dedicated DOS machine. Everything else is asking for major trouble

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Can any one suggest as to how do I Install DOS on today's high end machine... which even doesn't allow installing Windpws Xp.. Will this high end contemporary machines allow me to install DOS ? I tried but not successful. If anyone can suggest.. I would be grateful

You need an old machine.

Or a new EPROM burner. 😉

Generally, most desktop machines still allow installing DOS, or at least copying a working installation from another machine. Unless they use EFI instead of BIOS, or the graphics card is not VGA compatible, it should work.

I've had good success with the DOS that's built into Windows 98SE (aka MS-DOS 7.1). Just make a 2GB FAT16 partition at the start of the hard disk with some CD-bootable partition management program, boot DOS from a floppy or boot a Windows 98 "rescue disk" floppy (an external USB floppy drive should work with the right BIOS settings, if the MB has no connector for a real PC floppy drive), FORMAT C: and off you go. As for parallel ports, if your modern MB doesn't have one you can get them on PCI cards and usually there exists a DOS program to configure them.

My Core2Quad system happily boots into DOS 7.1 and except for the sound card and non-standard USB devices I can use most hardware without problems from DOS.

Instead of futzing with hard drive partitions, why not just boot DOS from a USB thumb drive and be done with it? That should work, right?

It should, but I found it a bit of a hassle to correctly partition, activate and format a USB drive so DOS could boot from it.

People have used dosemu for eprom programming. You could set up a linux partition and use dosemu.