I've used GEM, GEOS, and DOSShell all in the past and they all have quirks and issues that make them all less than ideal for my use.
DOSShell is a really good idea (it supposedly used the same task-switching mechanism that was in Windows 3.x), but I found it very clunky to use. It does work pretty well, though. GEM has some useful applications, but it's very limited and also a little clunky. I think the best of the bunch is GEOS, but even back when it was a commercial application it wasn't all that stable (but it was probably at least as stable as Windows). My first experience with GEOS was back in the early days of the Internet when everybody used dial-up modems. Back then there were really only three viable ISP's with a national presence: America Online, Prodigy, and Compuserve. I thought AOL was the best at the time and used it for a long time and AOL was a GEOS application. As others have noted, I'm not sure how useful a GUI "front end" for DOS really is, but of the ones I've seen I think GEOS has the most potential. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
