Hi Luzemario,
> Debug is essential for programmers, only. Not all DOS users are
> programmers. Actually most of DOS users are hackers, but what? If such
I disagree. If you give a user exact instructions, he'll also make use
of DEBUG.
> user cannot access the network (so there is no e-mail), will he/she type
> an *assembler* debug script... by hand? support case... to DOS? how many
Yes, by hand. I did that just a few days ago to recover PC Mags TEE.COM.
> users does uses DOS today, if not to recover vintage computers? it is
> almost an hobby at all. Franky, I doubt there are more DOS users than
> BSD users nowadays. I know there is a bit of embedded and industrial
> systems running DOS, but they are really few. And what about DOS being
> the ONLY/MAIN OS? It is really rare, even on 3rd world countries.
Even for your hobbies you sometimes ask somebody for support, if that's
your point.
> Yes, I want to have debug tool handy, but I install it as a package,
> just before the emergency happens. I do not see the need to have it on
> the install floppies if space constraints are an issue.
Ok
> And yes again, I am another one that like to have debug tool ready, but
> we are on 21st century. Even the old computers will face another
> reality, so they are not alone anymore as on the previous century. If
> SvarDOS will be a candidate to post-apocalyptic OS, then yes, I urge to
> include all the tools on floppies... ;-)
DOS will help to save to world one day. ;-)
Think about The Terminator movie, where an Atari Portfolio palmtop-PC
was used.
> I agree that DEBUG is a very flexible tool, but we need to establish a
> mark here. Do we are making a new DOS, which space constrains are the
> main objective?, or we are doing another FreeDOS/MS-DOS clone? I
> understand that SvarDOS *is not* MS-DOS, DR-DOS, or any other type of
> DOS clone. It have its own personality.
Yes. But that doesn't exclude to include DEBUG as a core package.
> Sorry if my words sounds hard, english is not my native tongue. But it
> is my IMHO.
Understood.
> For me there is no difference if SvarDOS become an elephant or an ant,
> because my lowest-resources machine is an eBox-2300SX, a 486 with 128MB
> of RAM... :-D
Mine is one of those Atari Portfolios above.
Cheers,
Robert
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