Dev Teelucksingh wrote:
> A lot of well presented thoughts on the attraction of DOS.
Thanks, Dev;
I liked that a lot. The only point that wasn't covered was the frequent
assertation by Linux fanatics (ok,ok we're DOS fanatics but WE admit it)
that DOS is never going to evolve into that thing they seem to want.
I would like to say right here that *I* am quite happy with the current
(and past) state of DOS. Personally, I don't WANT filename completion,
and if I ever came across it I would want to turn it off.
I also don't want automatic directory sorting. Both Windows and Arachne
make it a pain in the butt to find something when I happen to know exactly
where I put it.
I have no need for 32Bit FATs either. OR gigabyte drives.
DOS has already evolved too far for me. I find the bells and whistles
designed to keep the great unwashed from hurting themselves exceedingly
annoying. Perhaps if we had let them run with sharp sticks for a while
we would have a lot more computer literate people on the planet. The
current crop isn't even Windoze literate for the most part - but they
do know how to find and play the games and music they want.
The REALLY nice thing about DOS is, if you want any of the gadgets you
can install them as addons (extensions). Just like Linux.
p.s. The 640k problem is hardware. Operating systems get around it by
various means. What would be nice is new HARDWARE.
Totally DIFFERENT hardware. No intel architecture.
But it would be economically impractical to make new hardware that didn't
run the existing crappy software. :(
- Clarence Verge
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