Re: Using FreeDOS In 2022

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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