Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:42:48 -0500 (EST) From: "Paul O. Bartlett" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: any new dos? In-Reply-To: <3BDC530E.6040709@drdos.org> Message-ID: X-No-Archive: Yes X-PGP-key: ftp://ftp.smart.net/pub/bartlett/pgpkey X-PGP-keyid: F383C8F9 X-PGP-key-fingerprint: E62D2E2C7BCD08CB B742A93726A91532 Organization: SmartNet Private Account MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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. -- Paul Bartlett bartlett AT smart DOT net PGP key info in message headers