DOS ain't dead - DR-DOS 8.1

DR-DOS 8.1 (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 22.11.2007, 11:23

> Sadly I have a lot of friends who don't care about compatability. They
> Installed Vista and just say don't use obsolete SW, get new version. Or
> trash a few years old HW if it haven't Vista drivers, it's crap. Or say I
> don't want x86 instructions just need Linux. They looked at me and wonder
> how it is possible that someone can still use near 10-years old Win98SE
> and even such archeologic artifact called DOS!? OMFG! :-D But I'm not
> afraid of.

Not to say Vista sucks, but ...

1). No full-screen CMD prompt at all!
2). 32 MB DPMI limit
3). Weird bugs (no symlink support for DOS apps, duped entries in root dir via DOS findfirst function).

Vista does some things well (eh, ACPI? Multitasking? GUI?), but DOS compatibility ain't one of 'em. And it surely can't be that hard to implement (for MS, for freak's sake, since they invented DOS!). And yet, DOS is hated badly, maybe even by them (why??). Granted, it got out of hand "back in the day" with shareware, expensive commercial software, etc. Sure, a programmer may decide to make his living off software, but that's not DOS's fault. Money isn't evil, but requiring too much can be a hindrance to getting things done (well, for us commoners, anyways).

Oh well, whatever, people still like DJGPP, old DOS games, MPXPLAY, so they still download FreeDOS. As long as I'm still alive, I've got plenty of things/projects/ideas for free DOS stuff to work on (as well as bug reports, heh, since I'm not that great a coder).

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Complete thread:

DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 21.11.2007, 18:02 (Announce)
- DR-DOS 8.1 - Laaca, 21.11.2007, 18:55
  - DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 21.11.2007, 19:13
    - DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 12:50
- DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 00:50
  - DR-DOS 8.1 - david, 22.11.2007, 08:33
    - DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 10:14
      - DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 10:41
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 11:17
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 11:23
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 11:44
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 12:28
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 12:54
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 13:05
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 16:39
        Vista - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 17:32
        Vista - Steve, 22.11.2007, 17:59
        Vista - sol, 22.11.2007, 18:11
        Vista - Steve, 22.11.2007, 19:06
        Vista - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 18:12
        Vista - sol, 22.11.2007, 19:43
        Vista - sol, 22.11.2007, 20:01
        Vista - sol, 22.11.2007, 20:37
        Vista - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 21:31
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Steve, 22.11.2007, 13:23
        DR-DOS 8.1 - rr, 22.11.2007, 13:26
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Steve, 22.11.2007, 13:31
        DR-DOS 8.1 - rr, 22.11.2007, 14:02
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Steve, 22.11.2007, 14:49
        DR-DOS 8.1 - rr, 22.11.2007, 14:59
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Steve, 22.11.2007, 15:12
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Laaca, 22.11.2007, 15:24
        DR-DOS 8.1 - rr, 22.11.2007, 15:55
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 13:37
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Steve, 22.11.2007, 15:07
        Vista's pre-SP1 DOS (in)compatibility - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 15:43
        Vista's pre-SP1 DOS (in)compatibility - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 16:26
        Vista's pre-SP1 DOS (in)compatibility - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 17:13
        Vista's pre-SP1 DOS (in)compatibility - Steve, 22.11.2007, 17:18
        Vista's pre-SP1 DOS (in)compatibility - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 17:18
        Vista's pre-SP1 DOS (in)compatibility - Steve, 22.11.2007, 16:28
        Vista's pre-SP1 (in)compatibility - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 17:19
        Vista's pre-SP1 DOS (in)compatibility - flox, 22.11.2007, 17:00
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 12:39
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 13:06
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 13:18
      - DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 12:23
        DR-DOS 8.1 - rr, 22.11.2007, 12:29
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Steve, 22.11.2007, 14:42
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 26.11.2007, 20:20
        DR-DOS 8.1 - DOS386, 12.12.2007, 02:09
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 16:58
        DR-DOS 8.1 - rr, 22.11.2007, 20:51
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 21:16
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 23.11.2007, 02:06
        DR-DOS 8.1 - rr, 23.11.2007, 09:27
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 24.11.2007, 14:33
        UIDE caches even disks for which it doesn't do UDMA - lucho, 24.11.2007, 09:09
        UIDE caches even disks for which it doesn't do UDMA - RayeR, 24.11.2007, 17:39
- DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 10:13
  - DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 10:27
    - DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 10:53
      - DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 11:31
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 12:36
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 17:11
    - DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 11:19
      - DR-DOS 8.1 - flox, 22.11.2007, 15:37
        TriDOS -- DPMI bug? - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 16:20
        TriDOS -- DPMI bug? - flox, 22.11.2007, 17:02
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 26.11.2007, 20:24
    - DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 26.11.2007, 20:23
      - DR-DOS 8.1 - jaybur, 27.11.2007, 02:12
- DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 13:45
- DR-DOS 8.1 piracy :-( - DOS386, 12.12.2007, 02:00
  - DOS -- single-tasking? - Rugxulo, 12.12.2007, 18:26
    - DOS -- single-tasking? - Steve, 14.12.2007, 06:06
      - DOS -- single-tasking? - Rugxulo, 14.12.2007, 08:24
      - DOS -- single-tasking? - DOS386, 15.12.2007, 18:59
        DOS -- single-tasking? - Rugxulo, 16.12.2007, 00:44