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posted by marcov, 20.02.2012, 10:33

> > Ask yourself why. Maybe because most of the remaining Dosers are there
> > mainly because of inertia, rather than choice.
>
> Yes, it's interesting how much older platforms like C64 or Amiga have a lot
> of hardcore fans that still produce new SW and also improve HW. Maybe it's
> because it had multimedia features in times when DOS had just a bare
> commandline so creative people was attracted to it much more than to PC.
My bet is that the break was more definitive. I think Dos went out of favour only slowly, bit by bit, failing to give off that significant "we have to do something or it is dead" trigger.

And of course Dos was the first major computer platform that droves of people only used because of work.

> Also this platforms has advantage in simple and unified hardware (very well
> documented) that makes same limitations for all users but makes programming
> much more simple than on PC where you have spreaded tons of incompatible HW
> and you want to run your progam from 386 to core i7...

Somewhat. But I'm not so sure that that is it. E.g. Mac (68k, another such legacy group) and Amiga has internally several major revisions too, that are technically as far apart as 8086-only dos and a modern 32-bit Linux environment. And they have funky addons like CPU replacements etc.

> But regardless that>
> most of DOS users moved to windows because there was quite good continuity
> of developed applications so they could forgot DOS.

Well, and of course that the bulk wasn't on Dos as a hobby. But for that the Dos cloud was magnitudes larger, and the remaining group of faithful should still be larger than the Amiga etc groups.

But somehow they never organized and start working.

FreeDOS is a notable exception. DJGPP could be, but I'm not really sure it counts since it only gets some maintenance, and the bulk being done in DOS' heydays, not after.

> Except some special
> cases of special DOS SW that has not replacement for windows but their
> users leave DOS system as is because it simply works and they don't need do
> any development.

That goes for the Amiga group too. They don't really "need" that too. Even stronger for the Mac groups since they had a binary emulation on their next platform.

> And there left only a 0,00...% od users who use DOS just
> for fun, using theirs favorite old apps/games or learning system
> programming...
But I think in absolute numbers they were larger than the Amiga crowd.

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