DOS ain't dead

Interview with Jim Hall.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/18/retro_tech_week_freedos/?td=rt-3a

I'm glad the interview came out okay. (I tend to talk a lot during these things, probably too much?)

I didn't get to say enough about the community - that's why FreeDOS is still around, because it's a community thing. But time is time.

I read the transcript. Not bad.

For the record, Liam has in the past proven to be more than sympathetic to DR-DOS and friends. As a former user of DR-DOS 7.03, I'm still somewhat impressed with it (compared to MS-DOS).

When Pat Villani died in 2011, I created a Wikipedia page for him (surprised there wasn't one already). But there was quickly a dispute (for no obvious reason), and they attempted to delete it, which almost worked ... except for the help of Matthias Paul (well-known former DR-DOS developer). I was serious when I told him that he probably deserved his own Wikipedia page.

Someone needs to interview Matthias Paul one of these days. He's very active on Wikipedia, but I don't know his email address. But I doubt I'm much help re: suggestions or questions.

Is this a good idea?

> Someone needs to interview Matthias Paul one of these days. He's very
> active on Wikipedia, but I don't know his email address. But I doubt I'm
> much help re: suggestions or questions.
>
> Is this a good idea?

Interview Mr Paul why and about what?

Btw, IMO interviews in video format are way inferior to anything in text format. As for me, I have difficulties to understand that horrible American English "dialect", for example.

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MS-DOS forever!