For many (most?) people, FreeDOS offers a chance to start our Windows
machines in DOS mode in order to do maintenance work on the hard drives
with no open files. Not just for rescue when the machine crashes, but
for total backup of a known-good system.
James Tabor is probably right. To do this right, we need a simple,
stable DOS (or MS-DOS emulator), with drivers for hard disks, USB flash
disks, USB hard disks, LANs, etc., which can read and write all
varieties of FAT and NTFS without damaging long file names and other
metadata.
I know. I know. MS-DOS and Windows are not, and never were, the best
possible operating systems. But please remember that over 99% of
computer users do not buy (or build) a computer and operating system
just to have the best possible operating system or hardware. We select
the hardware and operating system that will run the software we need or
want, hopefully with the least pain. Most applications, including some
that I personally find "indispensable", have never been written for any
operating systems but MS-DOS and Windows. So I still buy and build
Intel-Windows computers.
It would be stupid and short-sighted of Microsoft to make FreeDOS and
like systems go away, especially since they no longer sell or support
MS-DOS.
Please keep up the good work. I await FreeDOS 1.0.0 with bated breath.
---Eli
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