DOS ain't dead

The DOS user base is much larger than you think (Miscellaneous)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 29.10.2007, 12:35

> Mr SOL, you greatly underestimate the DOS user base. It's still millions!
> And I mean millions of real DOS users booting DOS under real hardware. The
> main page of the FreeDOS site lists 3 types of DOS uses today:

BTW I foud that Seagate started using Free SW for their diag. tools. New Seatools bootdisk use FreeDOS kernel 2035, ctmouse and Seatools is now compiled by DJGPP using Allegro instead Zinc ZAF. So why they didn't used linux or windows instead? :)

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

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Complete thread:

• Only One "Customer" -- ONLY ONE!!! - Jack, 17.10.2007, 23:39 (Miscellaneous)
  • Only One "Customer" -- ONLY ONE!!! - Steve, 18.10.2007, 08:27
  • Only One "Customer" -- ONLY ONE!!! - sol, 23.10.2007, 17:41
    • NO! - Jack, 23.10.2007, 21:49
      • NO! - sol, 23.10.2007, 22:50
        • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - lucho, 24.10.2007, 13:55
          • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 24.10.2007, 17:43
            • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - lucho, 24.10.2007, 18:27
              • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 24.10.2007, 18:38
                • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - lucho, 25.10.2007, 09:16
                  • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 25.10.2007, 17:16
                    • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - lucho, 25.10.2007, 18:05
                    • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - Rugxulo, 26.10.2007, 02:27
                      • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 26.10.2007, 02:32
                        • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - Rugxulo, 26.10.2007, 04:42
                          • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 26.10.2007, 06:27
                            • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - Rugxulo, 26.10.2007, 07:42
                              • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 26.10.2007, 17:40
                                • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - Rugxulo, 27.10.2007, 14:04
                            • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - DOS386, 26.10.2007, 08:07
                              • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 26.10.2007, 18:05
                                • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - Rugxulo, 27.10.2007, 13:55
                                  • 30 seconds boot time - lucho, 27.10.2007, 14:32
                            • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - Rugxulo, 28.10.2007, 01:38
                              • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - Steve, 28.10.2007, 04:26
                              • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 28.10.2007, 20:18
                                • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - Rugxulo, 29.10.2007, 13:31
                                  • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 30.10.2007, 16:47
                                    • The charm of DOS - lucho, 30.10.2007, 17:23
                                    • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - Rugxulo, 31.10.2007, 00:43
                      • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - DOS386, 26.10.2007, 07:59
            • The "Title" of This Thread. - Jack, 24.10.2007, 19:36
              • The "Title" of This Thread. - sol, 24.10.2007, 19:46
                • Get Something ELSE!! - Jack, 24.10.2007, 22:27
                  • Get Something ELSE!! - sol, 24.10.2007, 23:01
                • The "Title" of This Thread. - DOS386, 25.10.2007, 06:30
                  • The "Title" of This Thread. - rr, 25.10.2007, 10:48
                    • The "Title" of This Thread and the God - DOS386, 26.10.2007, 08:10
                  • The "Title" of This Thread. - Steve, 25.10.2007, 14:55
                • Boot floppy - lucho, 25.10.2007, 15:29
                • The "Title" of This Thread. - DOS386, 28.10.2007, 02:00
                  • The "Title" of This Thread. - sol, 28.10.2007, 20:28
          • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - RayeR, 29.10.2007, 12:35
            • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - sol, 30.10.2007, 16:44
              • Seagate and DOS - lucho, 30.10.2007, 17:24
                • Seagate and DOS - sol, 30.10.2007, 19:20
                  • DyDOSaurs - lucho, 30.10.2007, 20:05
                    • DyDOSaurs - sol, 30.10.2007, 20:10
                      • Questions to Solomon - lucho, 31.10.2007, 10:32
                  • Seagate and DOS - Khusraw, 30.10.2007, 21:05
                    • Seagate and DOS - sol, 30.10.2007, 21:47
                      • Seagate and DOS - Khusraw, 30.10.2007, 22:29
                      • Seagate and DOS - Khusraw, 30.10.2007, 22:34
                        • Seagate and DOS - sol, 30.10.2007, 22:48
                          • Seagate and DOS - Khusraw, 31.10.2007, 02:29
                            • Seagate and DOS - sol, 31.10.2007, 05:01
                              • Seagate and DOS - Khusraw, 31.10.2007, 14:44
                                • Seagate and DOS - sol, 31.10.2007, 17:26
                    • Seagate and DOS - sol, 30.10.2007, 22:43
                      • Seagate and DOS - Rugxulo, 31.10.2007, 00:51
                      • Seagate and DOS - Khusraw, 31.10.2007, 01:12
                        • Seagate and DOS - sol, 31.10.2007, 04:35
                    • Seagate and DOS - sol, 30.10.2007, 22:47
                      • Seagate and DOS - Khusraw, 31.10.2007, 01:22
              • The DOS user base is much larger than you think - RayeR, 31.10.2007, 12:40
  • One of the biggest improvements to DOS - lucho, 25.10.2007, 16:39
    • One of the biggest improvements to DOS - Tom, 25.10.2007, 17:06
  • Let's End THIS Poor-Old Thread, As Well! - Jack, 31.10.2007, 15:46