I could quote here but there are too many lines.
I agree with Clarence Verge on hating GUIs. I don't see how I would survive Mac
with no command prompt. Supposed to be more user-friendly than Linux?
Windows ME is almost but not quite eliminating the command prompt?
Are Linux text editors more difficult to use (not including vi) than DOS-based
text editors, even when file size approaches 400 KB? DOS has trouble with
anything that won't fit in low memory. So many times Arachne wouldn't start for
me, due to insufficient low memory. My current favorite text editor is EPM,
which is an OS/2 program.
On free or noncommercial DOSes ready for serious business, is FreeDOS really
sturdy enough? Anybody try to run Internet programs with FreeDOS?
I find DOS Internet programs crash-prone, but not all. Net Mail DOS looks
solid. DOS Lynx386 tends to hang on certain sites, and when I reboot, I come up
in year 1994 or 2094. UKA_PPP is buggy, especially the mail part, and also
frequently resets the year to 1994 or 2094. Internet software for OS/2 is
disappointing (if it were better, I would never have been on this list), and
Netscape Communicator crawls on my system.
If the DOS people: Lineo and those who want to develop DR-DOS further;
Net-Tamer, Arachne and others could cooperate instead of competing with each
other, maybe there would be a future for DOS.
As it is, I see OS/2 Warp as a kludge until I get set with something better,
like Linux or NetBSD.
