If you take a look one of the links from Jim recently he states:
"But in an alternate reality, what would DOS had looked like if Microsoft
hadn't moved to Windows? I think we get to define what that looks like."
Think for a second about what Microsoft, or any company would have done to
continue DOS development ?
They would have started by trying to understand what users would be doing with
the new software. What kinds of things are users requesting that can't be done
with MS-DOS 6.22 ? What could we do to increase market share for DOS compared
to other operating systems?
While it's certainly fun to think about all kinds of cool stuff .. ultimately
it comes down to what problem are we trying to solve?
I've read only one "use case" in the discussion so far: a user has a PC with
UEFI BIOS and we want to boot DOS. This may be a non-issue as others have
discussed, but it's a specific use case that some users might be interested in.
So who can articulate a use case or user story about what they want to do with
a "FreeDOS 32" or whatever it might be called ?
I have my own user story I'll share in a bit.
Dave
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