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Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Using FreeDOS In 2022 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:00:09 -0000 (UTC) Organization: the-candyden-of-code Lines: 40 Message-ID: <v08peo$1o0cp$1@dont-email.me> References: <slrnv2aagh.2fm.bencollver@svadhyaya.localdomain> <v055pm$rf51$3@dont-email.me> <slrnv2cuoj.1ub.bencollver@svadhyaya.localdomain> <6626e295@news.ausics.net> <v08j0h$1mg6c$1@dont-email.me> <20240423174958.2fd4398422d51ed0f4cce992@127.0.0.1> Injection-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:00:09 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5e2a5cbffd9d77717898ac1f44c4bf45"; logging-data="1835417"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ETmHJWmB0DKFJu0mgcP2ULVYqC6Um8qCvUgVRufJeNQ==" User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.4-9 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yYPtfr5hhMTQe2HZmana5zJoa6c= X-Face: b{dPmN&%4|lEo,wUO\"KLEOu5N_br(N2Yuc5/qcR5i>9-!^e\.Tw9?/m0}/~:UOM:Zf]% b+ V4R8q|QiU/R8\|G\WpC`-s?=)\fbtNc&=/a3a)r7xbRI]Vl)r<%PTriJ3pGpl_/B6!8pe\btzx `~R! r3.0#lHRE+^Gro0[cjsban'vZ#j7,?I/tHk{s=TFJ:H?~=]`O*~3ZX`qik`b:.gVIc-[$t/e ZrQsWJ >|l^I_[pbsIqwoz.WGA]<D Bytes: 3252 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. -- user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom