DOS ain't dead

Vista's pre-SP1 DOS (in)compatibility (Announce)

posted by Steve  , US, 22.11.2007, 16:28

> Put simply, it's not a DOS-lover's favorite Windows

That's how it looks.

> (what is, Win98SE?)

The last real DOS-based Windows, bootable to plain DOS, so, yes.

> Even XP runs DOS stuff a lot better. So yeah, not sure if you're really
> wanting to upgrade, but unless you're willing to use a hypervisor/VM for DOS
> stuff, I'd advise against it. (Although Vista will probably eventually be
> ubiquitous like XP now is.)

Actually, I have never wanted to upgrade an OS. Vista looks to me like a worst case - nothing I really need, and everything I don't (bad DOS support, breaks even some good Win apps, hardware pig...). Unless and until there are attractive apps that run on Vista only, I'm standing still at XP (as I did for a real long time with Win95 and Win3 earlier).

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