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Subject: Re: Using FreeDOS In 2022
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:49:58 +0100
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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

-- 
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