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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: Using FreeDOS In 2022
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:00:09 -0000 (UTC)
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Kerr-Mudd, John <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote at 16:49 this Tuesday (GMT):
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:10:10 -0000 (UTC)
> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>
>> Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote at 22:20 this Monday (GMT):
>> > Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:
>> >> On 2024-04-22, Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> On 4/21/2024 5:07 PM, Ben Collver wrote:
>> >>> I do like FreeDOS as such, but I would argue that Linux is much more 
>> >>> adaptable to human use. But well, I just like unixoid systems a lot.
>> >>> I did start with MS-DOS when I was a kid, and I liked it back then, but 
>> >>> it always had too many limitations.
>> >> 
>> >> From my start i tried to make DOS more Unix-like.  Borland had
>> >> grep.exe and i remember using DesqView for multi-tasking.
>> >
>> > I like the simplicity of DOS too, but when people talk about using
>> > it instead of modern Linux or Windows it occours to me that after
>> > loading USB, Ethernet, file system (long file name support), and
>> > mouse drivers, Maybe even a full multi-tasking user environment as
>> > you suggest, you're basically building a complex modern OS on top
>> > of DOS one TSR program at a time. But without much documentation or
>> > support. To that end you can run loadlin.exe and just boot Linux
>> > from DOS (or start pre-NT Windows).
>> >
>> > Perhaps the nice thing about FreeDOS could be that you can choose
>> > exactly how much of that complexity you want more easily?
>> 
>> 
>> Ironically, Windows was built on DOS too.
>
> A promising alternative was MS DOS 5's "DOSShell" program, but that go
> killed off to save Windows sales.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dosshell


Interesting, I'd never heard of it.
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