DOS ain't dead

FreeDOS' contributor (Miscellaneous)

posted by Khusraw , Bucharest, Romania, 09.04.2009, 16:24

Firstly, you should have understood that I did refer only to the kernel, not to the full contents of the package (drivers, tools, utilities) associated with one DOS or another. I have to accept that I haven't tried PC-DOS on an 8088, but on the systems I used it I can assure you that it's not at all faster, as neither DR-DOS is. OTOH the 'built-in' things are rather a loss than a gain. What happens if people don't need them or have found better alternatives? And I'm sorry to say, but from all the DOSes I enumerated, I found PTS-DOS to be the worst (but not far worse than ROM-DOS).
I still can't see nothing concrete from you. Give a single example of a program which strongly uses int 21h calls and runs better/faster in the same testing conditions (same hardware, same DOS configuration) with any other DOS than MS-DOS. Eventualy post your profiling results here.

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Complete thread:

• 4DOS - Ninho, 29.03.2009, 17:02 (Miscellaneous)
  • 4DOS - RayeR, 29.03.2009, 22:00
    • 4DOS - Ninho, 30.03.2009, 18:35
  • 4DOS - DOS386, 31.03.2009, 03:39
    • 4DOS - Ninho, 05.04.2009, 19:56
      • 4DOS - Rugxulo, 05.04.2009, 23:50
        • 4DOS - Japheth, 06.04.2009, 09:11
          • FreeDOS' main contributor - Rugxulo, 07.04.2009, 00:22
            • FreeDOS' main noise contributor - Japheth, 07.04.2009, 07:45
              • FreeDOS' contributor - Rugxulo, 07.04.2009, 13:24
                • FreeDOS' contributor - Khusraw, 07.04.2009, 15:13
                  • FreeDOS' contributor - ecm, 07.04.2009, 20:12
                    • FreeDOS' contributor - Khusraw, 07.04.2009, 20:35
                      • FreeDOS' contributor - ecm, 07.04.2009, 21:51
                  • FreeDOS' contributor - Rugxulo, 08.04.2009, 19:32
                    • Why MS-DOS still "wins" - Japheth, 09.04.2009, 07:20
                      • Why MS-DOS still "wins" - ecm, 09.04.2009, 12:27
                      • MS-DOS still wins (except when it doesn't) - Rugxulo, 09.04.2009, 14:39
                        • MS-DOS wins and wins - Japheth, 10.04.2009, 18:56
                          • MS-DOG wins and wins | Execellent BUG report - DOS386, 17.05.2009, 05:44
                            • .EXEcellent - ecm, 17.05.2009, 17:04
                    • FreeDOS' contributor - Khusraw, 09.04.2009, 08:12
                      • FreeDOS' contributor - Rugxulo, 09.04.2009, 14:23
                        • FreeDOS' contributor - Khusraw, 09.04.2009, 16:24
                          • FreeDOS' contributor - Rugxulo, 09.04.2009, 17:02
                            • FreeDOS' contributor - ecm, 10.04.2009, 03:39
                              • FreeDOS' contributor - Rugxulo, 10.04.2009, 05:09
                                • FreeDOS' contributor - ecm, 11.04.2009, 11:34
                • FreeDOS' contributor - Japheth, 07.04.2009, 15:24
                • FreeDOS' contributor - RayeR, 08.04.2009, 00:19
                  • FreeDOS' contributor - rr, 08.04.2009, 21:25
            • FreeDOS' main contributor - Khusraw, 07.04.2009, 10:27