On Wed, 1 Dec 2021, Liam Proven wrote:
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.
Meanwhile I started out with PC DOS 3.2, and mostly used the IBM dialect on my first couple machines.
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.
And PC DOS is more compatible with MS-DOS than other DOSes, because, well, it *is* MS-DOS.
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. :-)
Likewise my PS/2 runs PC DOS. -uso. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
