On Wed, 14 Jun 2023, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel wrote:
Unfortunately, in many cases, it has to be an absolute rule.
I totally get the mindset (and semi-subscribe to it myself)of wanting
FreeDOS to be a kind of MS-DOS but improved in every way possible
including fixing Microsoft's bugs, but realistically that cannot be in
all cases since some legacy software out there may very well be relying
on a specific behavior present in MS-DOS and us fixing that bug - even
when normally be the right thing to do - may break compatibility in
those cases.
This... MS-DOS and PC DOS have been "the norm" for so long that a lot of
software relies on bugs and corner cases, and falls apart if they aren't
supported.
-uso.
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