You know I used Dos for years, loved dos and still do. I could make my own little programs using editor and loved that. I loved the fact that the program was in a place I created and if I wanted to remove all the program, all I had to do was delete the directory it was in and of course all the program was gone. I loved the fact that if I had problems with the hard drive all I had to do was partition the hard drive format it and then re-install dos then install my backup. When Microsoft was going all windows I bought DRdos trying to hold on or out whichever way you want to look at it but of course I couldn't stay with dos because all the world was going to windows. If Bill Gates was anything he is and was a salesman. <BG> I have wished and wished someone could create an operating system that would run windows programs but still be dos. Ah but this is impossible since Bill Gates would never allow that he would lose money some of the billions or trillions he has now. I would like to run dos and vista now but for what purpose? I still have to run windows to be compatible with the world and run the programs I have bought from old Bill. The folks that try to keep free dos alive have no pay, not much time, still if you don't have to be compatible, it would be well worth changing to. If I could I would never run windows ever, has problems, not stable and never has been and in my opinion never will be. Old Bill was trying to get windows where Linux was for years. Problems that cropped up in windows server, linux had already solved years ago and windows had and still does have lots of problems. Old Bill was trying to get windows server to linus stability without bugs for years so why would anyone who doesn't have to be compatible with the world want to run windows in dos? The best windows he ever had was the first one where there was a window where you programs were and you could load them, which really was just a menu program which was easier to load your dos programs and windows should have stopped there. Right now if I had a dos based operating system that would run windows programs, which is all I have now, I would change right now and never run windows ever. Think that will ever happen? Now I read that Microsoft is trying to make an operating system that isn't bloated and is stable, well there was one and it was called dos. Why because the stability and the compactness of the program was all left up to the programmer. Wonder if that operating system will run windows programs, doubt it.
Ron Spruell Sr. -----Original Message----- From: jasse...@itelefonica.com.br [mailto:jasse...@itelefonica.com.br] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 8:42 PM To: freedos-user Subject: [Freedos-user] Karen Llewellen said: > I have a wonderful dsl connection now in dos > using ms dos 7.1, pure not under windows of course, > and wattcp applications most notably ssh2021b > which lets me telnet to my shell service shellworld.net > Having dreadful success with doslynx, even though I > use lynx itself on my shell service. > I would love to have a dos based browser that can work > with speech, <that rules out Arachnid> but wonder if the > one thing I cannot use right now would be a possibility > regardless? Why not lynx itself ? There is a port to DOS of version 2.8.5 at http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/ and there used to be a port of version 2.8.4d14, which I find nicer (use it daily), at http://www.rene4u.com . I can send you the executable (NOT the sources, for I do not have them) of this if you are interested. Would you please give more info on your DSL setup: modem (or bridge) hardware, device drivers and connection details ? Best regards JAS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
