DOS ain't dead - Japheth 2008 DOS Man of the Year

Japheth 2008 DOS Man of the Year (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 09.01.2009, 23:28

> > Report it to Eric. But he's pretty much the only active kernel person
> > these days (AFAICT).
>
> It has been reported already. I'm holding my breath...

There are others, but they aren't really as reliable, e.g. their status changes too often or else they don't "report in" as much. ("Real world" is a dirty word.)

> But seeing the FreeDOS kernel mess it might be a better idea to wait for
> cm to provide us a bug-free, fast, LFN-aware, nice and cool RxDOS ... :-)

No offense to anybody, but I think RxDOS is too buggy as is. Now, if he wants to fix those bugs, that's fine. But for now, it's not as useful as FreeDOS.

> > You've done very well! (Japheth for 2008 DOS "Man of the Year")! :-)
>
> In 2008 virtually all I did was NTDPMIX ... to improve NTVDM.

I thought you spent more time on JWasm and HX. But yeah, that one's cool too. ;-)

> IIRC there are some who prefer to think that this is in fact doing
> damage to DOS. :-D

Some people wonder why ReactOS has to exist when GNU/Linux is already free. The simple answer is that some people prefer to do things differently. (Why D or C++ instead of C? Why Ada or Oberon or Modula-2 instead of Pascal? Why not?)

> The new, shiny FreeDOS bug tracker is useless if there's no one
> reading it. (Same for RxDOS's SF.net bug tracker, but then again
> nobody is promoting this one.)

RxDOS' SourceForge site doesn't even have the latest binaries or various other things, so that's not a reliable "homepage", IMHO. And it's not updated or maintained, so it's effectively frozen.

Having a bug tracker is never useless, at least it lets potential hackers know what they're up against. Sure, it probably won't all be fixed immediately, but it's still good to know.

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        mieh tuh! - Japheth, 07.01.2009, 07:58
        mieh tuh! - Rugxulo, 09.01.2009, 00:46
        mieh tuh! - Japheth, 09.01.2009, 18:09
        mieh tuh! - ecm, 09.01.2009, 18:31
        mieh tuh! - RayeR, 12.01.2009, 14:04
        Japheth 2008 DOS Man of the Year - Rugxulo, 09.01.2009, 23:28
        Japheth 2008 DOS Man of the Year - ecm, 11.01.2009, 11:01
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