Mail Archives: opendos/2001/10/28/17:32:17
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Florian Xaver wrote:
> You think very positive :-) I am not ....
> DOS isn't really useable for home user.
> I bougth a new PC, and have many troubles with DOS. So there are much to do.
I disagree about DOS not being suitable for a home user. For the
most part I was satisfied with MS-DOS 5, NDOS, and 5MB RAM at home
except for the lack of a graphical browser with Javascript support. If
there is such a beast for DOS, I have not heard of it and would be
interested to learn of it. Generally I am happy with a text-based,
command-line interface and am more interested in substance than the
flash and glitter -- and piggishness -- of Windows. Finally I gave in
a bought a new computer with much more horsepower and Windows 98
installed on it. I did partition the HDD and put DR-DOS 7.03 on one of
the partitions, but when I could not get my old DOS version of Procomm
Plus v2 installed, I sort of let it slide. Given an adequate browser
(and an acceptable terminal program, as I dial into a Linux system for
mail/ng), most of my needs at home could be met with DOS. But I admit
that there is probably not a lot of new application developement going
on any more.
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Paul Bartlett
bartlett AT smart DOT net
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