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posted by Khusraw, 31.10.2007, 14:44

> You mean, rather, that your statements are baseless aside from two
> stretches you call "clues"?
No, I don't. You didn't understand that my posts were a game intended to make you finally tell us what really torments your soul. Your answers were previsible.

> 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.
If some OS has improved all that you pointed before, it has just "evolved", but if DOS does the same, it becomes for you another OS! Look at what happens now on different programming forums when kids ask about DOS. There is allways an "all-knowing" person disposed to answer by telling them that they are waisting their time putting DOS questions, and they must look in another place in order to be in step with the times. These people are like you, frustrated individuals, who are obsessed with their own past. You are incapable to understand that they know very well what they are doing and they have a computer experience totally opposed to yours. What you discovered time-worned, after many years of computer experience, they allready know by heart. They are just searching for something different, but you do all that's possible to stop them. Who do you expect to continue developing DOS? For example I live in a burgeoise society and I must bend to its rules. With my max. 4-5 spare time hours per day, and having a family at home, it's almost impossible for me to contribute to DOS development. I'm sure that many others are in the same situation. It is not a lack of interest, but a lack of time, and that's because DOS developing is an "unproductive" task.

DOS has not lost because of its flaws, but because Microsoft has abbandoned it. The same thing is happening now with Windows98. When recently one of my video cards died I had to replace on that computer Windows98 with XP. And do you know why, Mr. Sol? Because there are no Windows98 drivers available for the new card, and the card was the only good quality AGP card still available in the computer stores from my home city. The rest were PCIe. If you are bound to buy new hardware, you must switch to the latest Microsoft OS product. Please read with more attention the hardware packages. The products are "made to be used" with Microsoft's last OS, and in the best case they just "support" Linux etc. When some hobbyists took Unix as model for developing their own OS, they did that because they connected DOS with the powerful and hated by them company. With all of its advantages over DOS, Unix was less user friendly. Unix-es will be allways one step behind Microsoft. Until the hobbyists beg for documentation and try to successfully hack software, Microsoft is already ahead. How many people are using only Linux and how many people are using only Microsoft's OS? In the countries were authorities are still not so much interested by the fact that people use pirated software, I asure you that almost no one uses Linux. Linux was and will be the poor man's option. What has Linux to offer, disregarding the price, and Microsoft's last OS lacks?

> Now you've got not only inferrence, but outright lies :)
You are a calumniator.

> 1. I boot via USB key to DOS, as well, as I mentioned in my post (the same
> one where I mentioned emulation).
What greater self-contradiction are you capable besides.

> 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.
Formerly I thought that you are just another "devil's advocate", but later I convinced myself that you are a frustrated and disoriented person who in the past earned from DOS and now he can't. Please show a single new thing you revealed in this thread.

> 3. Comments around the anti-social programmer are irrelevant, especially
> since I clarified that I do boot to DOS.
You called him anti-social because of, in your opinion, his "improper" reactions, but what you have to say about yours, Mr. Sol, when you called me "moron". BTW, do you know how many times this great and respectable DOS programmer had to defend his honour because of the insults of "want-nothing" jesters, some of them more skilled than you?

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