On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 17:40, Steve Nickolas <[email protected]> wrote:
> MS-DOS had FC (written in C in 3.x and later) and RAMDRIVE, while IBM had > COMP (still written in ASM; simpler and not as powerful) and VDISK. I see -- thanks! > 5.0 had both. (!) > I'm not sure too many people know much about PC DOS versions after 4.01, > or really other than 2.1 and 3.3. Fair. For me, I left the IBM reseller that was my first job and moved to a much smaller company, so I stopped working with a mixture of PC DOS and MS-DOS and switched to mostly MS-DOS, with a little DR DOS. There has been a little bit of renewed interest in PC DOS from the late '90s onwards, especially with the recent retro-gaming trend, because IBM continued development for some time, into this century, while Microsoft switched focus to Windows only. Connectix' VirtualPC program -- a PC emulator on MacOS, but a hypervisor on Windows -- used to bundle PC DOS 2000 for free as its sample VM. So I suspect that a bunch of new users first encountered it that way. I run it PC DOS some of my Thinkpads, simply because it feels artistically _right_ somehow to run an IBM OS on what was originally IBM-designed hardware. :-) -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: [email protected] Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
