DOS ain't dead

Seagate and DOS (Miscellaneous)

posted by sol, 31.10.2007, 05:01

> > You're welcome to point them out.
>
> It's not my business to do your job, but I'm disposed to give you two
> clues:

You mean, rather, that your statements are baseless aside from two stretches you call "clues"?

> 1. You affirm that DOS has so few users because it is a rudimentary and
> antiquated OS, but OTOH you claim that improving and modernising it is a
> waisting of time exactly because it has so few users.

You're making an awfully large (and completely untrue) inferrence there. I never made any such claims, and I certainly never say "waisting". "Improving and modernising" is not what's taking place. Crawling forward is.

It's a waste of time because it's futile, not because there are few users. When I talk about DOS being junk in a lot of ways, I am referring to its core components; the file system, memory allocation/access, executable formats, scripting language, driver framework...

Want to modernise/improve DOS? You'll have to rip those things out and recreate them. What have you got left of DOS? Nothing.

> 2. You affirm that you use DOS only in an emulated environment and that
> you are intersested in it only as an emulated OS, but you have no posts in
> the "Emulation" category of this forum. OTOH you started your endless
> tirade against DOS pointing at the posts of a very active programmer whose
> work is not important for an emulated DOS environment.

Now you've got not only inferrence, but outright lies :)

1. I boot via USB key to DOS, as well, as I mentioned in my post (the same one where I mentioned emulation).

2. I fail to see how putting perspective on DOS and stating exactly what it is...is an "endless tirade" against it. I would stick up for its strong points if anyone were picking on those, but that's not the case. There's just people stating it's things it isn't.

3. Comments around the anti-social programmer are irrelevant, especially since I clarified that I do boot to DOS.

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Complete thread:

• Only One "Customer" -- ONLY ONE!!! - Jack, 17.10.2007, 23:39 (Miscellaneous)
  • Only One "Customer" -- ONLY ONE!!! - Steve, 18.10.2007, 08:27
  • Only One "Customer" -- ONLY ONE!!! - sol, 23.10.2007, 17:41
    • NO! - Jack, 23.10.2007, 21:49
      • NO! - sol, 23.10.2007, 22:50
        • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - lucho, 24.10.2007, 13:55
          • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 24.10.2007, 17:43
            • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - lucho, 24.10.2007, 18:27
              • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 24.10.2007, 18:38
                • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - lucho, 25.10.2007, 09:16
                  • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 25.10.2007, 17:16
                    • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - lucho, 25.10.2007, 18:05
                    • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - Rugxulo, 26.10.2007, 02:27
                      • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 26.10.2007, 02:32
                        • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - Rugxulo, 26.10.2007, 04:42
                          • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 26.10.2007, 06:27
                            • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - Rugxulo, 26.10.2007, 07:42
                              • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 26.10.2007, 17:40
                                • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - Rugxulo, 27.10.2007, 14:04
                            • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - DOS386, 26.10.2007, 08:07
                              • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 26.10.2007, 18:05
                                • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - Rugxulo, 27.10.2007, 13:55
                                  • 30 seconds boot time - lucho, 27.10.2007, 14:32
                            • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - Rugxulo, 28.10.2007, 01:38
                              • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - Steve, 28.10.2007, 04:26
                              • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 28.10.2007, 20:18
                                • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - Rugxulo, 29.10.2007, 13:31
                                  • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 30.10.2007, 16:47
                                    • The charm of DOS - lucho, 30.10.2007, 17:23
                                    • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - Rugxulo, 31.10.2007, 00:43
                      • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - DOS386, 26.10.2007, 07:59
            • The "Title" of This Thread. - Jack, 24.10.2007, 19:36
              • The "Title" of This Thread. - sol, 24.10.2007, 19:46
                • Get Something ELSE!! - Jack, 24.10.2007, 22:27
                  • Get Something ELSE!! - sol, 24.10.2007, 23:01
                • The "Title" of This Thread. - DOS386, 25.10.2007, 06:30
                  • The "Title" of This Thread. - rr, 25.10.2007, 10:48
                    • The "Title" of This Thread and the God - DOS386, 26.10.2007, 08:10
                  • The "Title" of This Thread. - Steve, 25.10.2007, 14:55
                • Boot floppy - lucho, 25.10.2007, 15:29
                • The "Title" of This Thread. - DOS386, 28.10.2007, 02:00
                  • The "Title" of This Thread. - sol, 28.10.2007, 20:28
          • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - RayeR, 29.10.2007, 12:35
            • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 30.10.2007, 16:44
              • Seagate and DOS - lucho, 30.10.2007, 17:24
                • Seagate and DOS - sol, 30.10.2007, 19:20
                  • DyDOSaurs - lucho, 30.10.2007, 20:05
                    • DyDOSaurs - sol, 30.10.2007, 20:10
                      • Questions to Solomon - lucho, 31.10.2007, 10:32
                  • Seagate and DOS - Khusraw, 30.10.2007, 21:05
                    • Seagate and DOS - sol, 30.10.2007, 21:47
                      • Seagate and DOS - Khusraw, 30.10.2007, 22:29
                      • Seagate and DOS - Khusraw, 30.10.2007, 22:34
                        • Seagate and DOS - sol, 30.10.2007, 22:48
                          • Seagate and DOS - Khusraw, 31.10.2007, 02:29
                            • Seagate and DOS - sol, 31.10.2007, 05:01
                              • Seagate and DOS - Khusraw, 31.10.2007, 14:44
                                • Seagate and DOS - sol, 31.10.2007, 17:26
                    • Seagate and DOS - sol, 30.10.2007, 22:43
                      • Seagate and DOS - Rugxulo, 31.10.2007, 00:51
                      • Seagate and DOS - Khusraw, 31.10.2007, 01:12
                        • Seagate and DOS - sol, 31.10.2007, 04:35
                    • Seagate and DOS - sol, 30.10.2007, 22:47
                      • Seagate and DOS - Khusraw, 31.10.2007, 01:22
              • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - RayeR, 31.10.2007, 12:40
  • One of the biggest improvements to DOS - lucho, 25.10.2007, 16:39
    • One of the biggest improvements to DOS - Tom, 25.10.2007, 17:06
  • Let's End THIS Poor-Old Thread, As Well! - Jack, 31.10.2007, 15:46