DOS ain't dead - FreeDOS' contributor

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posted by Khusraw , Bucharest, Romania, 09.04.2009, 08:12

> Even if you have sporadically tried all the other DOSes (which I highly
> doubt), there's no way you tested them in all situations exhaustively. MS
> has better testing than you and they still can't get NTVDM up to par, even
> compared to previous versions. (Vista's NTVDM is actually dated older than
> XP's and works worse in most ways.)

I didn't refer to any exotic/experimental/toy DOSes, but to those DOSes which are intended to be actually used, not only tested/tried. To be more explicit I have enough experience with any of MS-DOS, FleaDOS, DR-DOS and PC-DOS, and limited experience with PTS-DOS and ROM-DOS. But by simply pointing to a heterogeneous list of software you convince no one neither that there will be a DOS better than MS-DOS 7.10, nor that such a DOS already exists. And there is no need to test exhaustively (i.e., in all possible situations, which is practically impossible) an OS in order to see how well it works.

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