Hi Martin, > On an expansion of before. Just like BSD and Linux are relatives of > each other and just as capable of each other, why shouldn't DOS be > able to be just as capable as its relative Windows?
BSD and Linux have a culture of source-based software, often even open source. With acceptable extra effort, software can be made compatible with both Unix-ish systems, BSD and Linux, today usually including MacOS which has a BSD kernel but a very non-Unix GUI (although people often run X on it so you can run GUI apps from the Linux / BSD family). However, all that only works if you can recompile your software for the Operating System Relative Of Your Choice. The question is if the apps that make DOS popular are typically open source and if a suitable compiler would also be available on, eg ported to, the suggested "modern OS which is a relative of DOS" and in what way that software would run better on that new DOS. And of course which NEW software would run only in the newer DOS because classic DOS was not powerful enough to run them. > The DOS limitations are the limitations of old technology which are > no longer current limitations. Maybe. On the other hand, adding GUI and other modern things to the basics of DOS, as OS/2 did, is not automatically the way to make a good OS with enough users. Of course for this specific case, I think it was rather the non-tech powers of MS to drag users to Windows and not problems with the OS/2 technology itself that kept OS/2 from being successful? Also, how much nice software existed in special OS/2 versions? If people only wanted to run Windows software on something nicer than MS Windows, OS/2 would be comparable to what ReactOS is now. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
