Re: [Freedos-user] Anyone want to write an article about FreeDOS?

2023-02-06 Thread Jim Hall
*I'm going to ignore all the off topic stuff in this conversation and bring it back to the original focus:* >> And yes, an article, possibly a series of articles, about programming on > >> DOS, for DOS, will be forthcoming... > > Would you prefer an article on Pascal? I know you (also) are a fan

Re: [Freedos-user] Anyone want to write an article about FreeDOS?

2023-02-06 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/6/2023 5:40 PM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 4:35 PM Ralf Quint wrote: On 2/6/2023 2:03 PM, Rugxulo wrote: Do you not understand that I see a lot of similarities between the two OSes? Certainly they share enough for various ports of useful tools to be made. It doesn't mean

Re: [Freedos-user] Anyone want to write an article about FreeDOS?

2023-02-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 4:35 PM Ralf Quint wrote: > > On 2/6/2023 2:03 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Do you not understand that I see a lot of similarities between the two > > OSes? Certainly they share enough for various ports of useful tools to > > be made. It doesn't mean they have much in

Re: [Freedos-user] Anyone want to write an article about FreeDOS?

2023-02-06 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/6/2023 2:03 PM, Rugxulo wrote: Do you not understand that I see a lot of similarities between the two OSes? Certainly they share enough for various ports of useful tools to be made. It doesn't mean they have much in common, but I still see a lot to learn from classic UNIX and the philosophy

Re: [Freedos-user] Anyone want to write an article about FreeDOS?

2023-02-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 3:18 PM Ralf Quint wrote: > > On 2/5/2023 12:06 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > > The Art of Unix Programming attempts to capture the engineering wisdom > > and philosophy of the Unix community as it's applied today — not > > merely as it has been written down in the past, but as

Re: [Freedos-user] Anyone want to write an article about FreeDOS?

2023-02-06 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/5/2023 12:06 AM, Rugxulo wrote: The Art of Unix Programming attempts to capture the engineering wisdom and philosophy of the Unix community as it's applied today — not merely as it has been written down in the past, but as a living "special transmission, outside the scriptures" passed from