Since there seems to be a sort of democratic process emerging on the direction of FreeDOS, I suppose I should at least state my opinion. I use FreeDOS for what it doesn't have, like:
no multi-tasking to grab the CPU for housekeeping while I want it concentrating on business. or that I can turn off, like a GUI. I do want it to run on pretty much any old PC and the fact that the latest version won't play with my Borland compiler has made life somewhat difficult. I don't want to have to port all that C and assembler code to another system if I don't have to (a lot of it depends upon Borland library functions). FreeDOS has allowed me to keep running and devising human performance tests on PCs that are the equal of (and in some cases, superior to) very expensive software that runs on Windows and similar OSs. It allows me to do things like turn a parallel port into a poor man's digital I/O port that runs so fast that I have had to slow it down for some external hardware. I really appreciate the tremendous amount of work that people have contributed to FreeDOS. Just a vote for simplicity and reliability. Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
