Microsoft's COMMAND.COM is not as great.Since when did it include two
different memory versions (4dos)?FreeDOS includes extra commands that are
built in,such as BEEP,SOUND,and a few other batch commands.As for
compatibility with older computers,why not use their original OS?There are
many archives online that have original zipped copies of MS-DOS.FreeDOS (As
far as I know) is built for the more modern era (90's+).Before this
time,computers didn't follow a standard hardware layout.One computer had a
floppy port and no harddrive,and another required a master boot disk to
boot.As for the WHY,some peopel just like vintage hardware.I do.Perhaps we
could modify the original MS-DOS source,to keep it compatible with he
original 8086 machine,while adding more features?
Regards,
-Jayden
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Edouard Forler <edou...@forler.ch> wrote:
> Le 26.05.2015 01:10, Rugxulo a écrit :
> >> As for FreeDOS, well, the shell was really slow. My original idea was to
> >> get rid of Microsoft and get more features thanks to FreeDOS, but it was
> >> really too slow.
> > If something specific like "DIR" or "COPY" were too slow, that would
> > be nice to know. But FreeCOM (shell) is quite a beast, so it's fairly
> > complex (and has no current maintainer). If you want to try again
> > (presumably with 0.84-pre2 but maybe also 0.82pl3), go ahead. It would
> > be nice to know the exact commands that are bottlenecks for you. But
> > there may not be any huge fixes any time soon. So, for now, a
> > workaround would be to use third-party tools (under FreeDOS, not
> > MS-DOS, natch) that are faster (e.g. 1dir or Zcopy or whatever, I
> > can't remember everything).
> >
>
> Are you trying to say that Microsoft's DOS and COMMAND.COM are much more
> optimized than FreeDOS/FreeCOM :-) ?
>
> I will give it try again when I have some time.
>
> Since yesterday, there are 201+ machines in the TOPBENCH database ;-)
>
> Cheers
>
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