On Sat, 14 Dec 2024, Ben Collver via Freedos-devel wrote:
A lot of FreeDOS novices seem to want to turn it into Linux, the same
way a lot of Linux novices seem to want to turn it into Windows - and
I think it probably galls some of the old-timers here.
Seems to me there is an old tradition of trying to turn DOS into Unix
that predates even MS-DOS 5, the target of the FreeDOS spec. There have
been DOS ports of BSD utils since the 1980's and there is also the
GNUish project mirrored on the FreeDOS file repo. Why get curmudgeonly
over it now?
I was part of that; you'll find my name in GNUish (it's been there for
probably 25 years now). I think I even brought a version of bc over to
FreeDOS right here on this list a couple years ago.
But this whole thing I've seen about people trying to turn FreeDOS into a
modern OS with a GUI, multitasking and native AMD64 support and failing
because they can barely write hello world...it's because they've got stars
in their eyes and don't really "get" DOS the same way someone who grew up
on systems with MS-DOS 3.3 and even more primitive operating systems
would. I mean, you could see me 25 years ago on the old list being a
total n00b, but I wasn't trying to make DOS anything but DOS. (I learned
C because of FreeDOS.)
-uso.
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